Maz Jobrani Quotes

I moved to New York first and was really apprehensive about moving to L.A., but I really, really like it.

I live in a Spanish-style hillside home in Los Angeles, California. I paid $900,000 in 1995. It's perhaps worth about $3m now. Thankfully, I paid off my mortgage before the crash because I could see it coming. I worried that I would be caught having to pay off a very high mortgage for a house I couldn't sell.

There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being unemployed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money.

In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.

I'm a businesswoman. You know, I have other investments too, real estate. A long time ago, I would buy a house and flip it. But now everybody does that, so I don't do that anymore because there's no houses out there to buy.

I remembered moving from Sacramento to Los Angeles with my mum when I was seven and my sister was three or four.

I love Los Angeles. I love Seattle, too, which is where we have our home. But the notion of spending a lot of time in Los Angeles has been exciting to me for years. The community down there is great.

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

In general, I would say I'm probably a little more conscious of looking after my skin since I moved to L.A.

I was born in Sacramento but moved to Los Angeles with my mom and my little sister when I was seven.

I came to Los Angeles in the fall of 1969 to study at the AFI.

In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me hate mail.

I'd do whatever it takes to stay in California; maybe not L.A. because it's so crazy.

My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.

I was born in Northern California and lived there until I was about eight years old. Then my parents moved me up to Seattle. I lived there from ages eight to 16. When I was a California kid, I remember running around in my bathing suit and barefoot all the time and getting a suntan.

We moved to Los Angeles because our daughter wanted to go to Pepperdine.

I describe my years in Los Angeles as 12 years of culture shock.

I think I'd work a little more if I lived in L.A.

A fixer-upper is good for your business if you are the guy who fixes it up.

I really would move to L.A. I'm thinking so hard about it. Like, I wanna move to L.A., but I'm such a New York City girl - the fast life, the runways on the street - but I love L.A.'s vibe, so I would move here, but I'm still thinking about it!

The first time I moved to L.A., I was there for five months, and my health got so bad because of how depressed I was.

My dad had always bought and sold gold and other stuff. In '81, he went broke because of real estate, so he moved us to Vegas and opened a small second-hand store. We always wanted a pawn license because there's a lot more money in that.

I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I moved to L.A. in 1997.

All the people love L.A. All my friends are jealous because I am here.