Anthea Turner Quotes

When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!

I bought properties inexpensively and made a lot of money. I began to think it was easy.

We bought property after Iniki in '92. I figured we'd never find better bargains. As it turned out, we didn't get a bargain, but we did find the spot we wanted to live on. It actually took a couple years to secure that spot. Then, after we moved, it took over 10 years to start construction on the house. It's still a work in progress.

Did you know that the state is the proud owner of a condo complex in Conway? This budget adds a real estate manager position to assess what we own, and sell those properties that we don't need and shouldn't own.

When I left the work world, I started designing my dream house. I dived into architecture and bought seven vacant lots. My plan was to build one house, move in, and build the next. If the next was better, I'd move in and sell the previous one - so on and so forth.

I have made six big home moves in my life and I have never lost money on one I have lived in.

Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.

Of my investments that have been realised, buying my first house turned out to be a pretty good move, which I didn't really realise at the time.

I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell

With housing it's something even more dramatic than that, because most people aspire to own their own home.If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year.That's not true of an Internet stock. But it's true of a home.

I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.

I would say that I bought the land under which Trump Tower sits while playing golf.

If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources.

It was a precondition to leaving Facebook that I wasn't going to start something that was just about chasing money.

I view real estate as the most intriguing opportunity that I've seen in my business lifetime.

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

I've always wanted to be the biggest real estate man to come down the pike.

I always felt very secure and very safe with real estate. Real estate always appreciates.

Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.

If I find what I like, maybe in about five years we'll be able to afford to build a home in the country.

Money would be no object when compared with the value of the acquisition.

Individual households have become over-dependent on the appreciation of housing as a substitute for savings.

The greatest estates we have in this colony were made … by taking up and purchasing at very low rates the rich back lands which were thought nothing of in those days, but are now the most valuable lands we possess.