Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

When I started making money, I immediately began buying property and fixing it up. I was always searching for the next neighborhood. The first place I bought when I was 19. I found a huge loft on the Lower East Side, almost 3,500 square feet. I did it up, turned it over, and sold it.

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

Don't wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.

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.

Your house is your first small business. It's where your investment is and [where] our greatest asset is.

The secret I've lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And that's always my closet.

In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you're a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.

I tend to renovate properties when I'm not working.

I've got four houses in my street. I live in two, and the others are empty. I'll buy more as they come up, because I think it would be great to have the entire street.

I'd like to flip houses.

Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.

Jonathan and I love flipping homes. We've been renovating and flipping houses since the '90s.

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.

I like to repaint rooms, to redecorate. My dream would be to have pieds-à-terre in various places.

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 love the whole of California, I have places... my whole thing is with all the money I make, I just want to buy as many places in California as I can because I love it.

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

I have already expressed my opinion on this subject in treating of rent, and have now only further to add, that rent is a creation of value, as I understand that word, but not a creation of wealth.

My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

If you don’t own a home, buy one. If you own one home, buy another one, and if you own two homes buy a third and lend your relatives the money to buy a home.

If you want to make a lot of money, resist diversification.

One wise decision I made was buying a plot of land with planning permission in Richmond, and building my own five-bedroom home on it. I sold three years after I completed the building and more than doubled my money. I like Richmond and always have my eyes open for other properties in the area.

Second is the way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit.

[Donald Trump] said, back in 2006, "Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money." Well, it did collapse.

Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.