Jeff Greene Quotes

A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.

Given the success rate, if you want to get wealthy, entrepreneurship is a horrible way of doing it. There are significantly easier ways of doing it.

When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.

I think it's hard for anyone to get into real estate or Hollywood.

We didn't create an institution to increase land value or asset value.

I don't support deed transfer of lands.

We will strengthen crackdown on illegal renovations and enforce a restitution of large-scale development gains to better stabilize the real estate market.

I'm still focused on the flagship businesses: Quicken Loans and RockBridge, the title company, and some of the board stuff in the gaming.

I never thought I'd be doing TV shows about real estate.

The German police were actually after me when I was first in Stoke. They had put pictures of my face on the trees in Bremen and said: 'Find this guy.' They said I had an €80 fine to pay or something. But I spoke to my lawyer and I didn't owe anything.

I've always taken risks and bought property well. As journalism wasn't particularly well paid, buying homes and selling them for profit improved my income.

What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?

Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.

Property is impossible.

His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?

At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.

You can't force someone to sell property in America.

As well as, we know, as a real estate developer, [Donald Trump] has hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, in loans.

In the 1930s, there was a stretch where you could borrow more against the real estate than you could sell it for. I think that's what's going on in today's private-equity world.

Men are fools to invest in real estate.

Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.

As far as the lawsuit, yes, when I was very young, I went into my father's company, had a real estate company in Brooklyn and Queens, and we, along with many, many other companies throughout the country - it was a federal lawsuit - were sued. We settled the suit with zero - with no admission of guilt. It was very easy to do.

No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them.