What is your favorite quote??

Investor · Clinton, MS · Member since 2019 · 83 posts · 85 votes

I believe quotes are a powerful tool. They provide a boost of quick knowledge and motivation. I would love to hear your favorites and why they are.

"Don't wait for the perfect opportunity: create it." -George Benard Shaw

I love this because it symbolizes the truth that nothing is going to be given it must be earned/taken. When I read it each day, I am naturally shifted into an action taking mindset.

-Nathan

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Scott Mac

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"Make as much money as you can!" -Me

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Specialist · Mortgage Broker Canada · Member since 2015 · 316 posts · 118 votes
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Rental Property Investor · MN · Member since 2018 · 12 posts · 5 votes
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@Nathan Killebrew “ Stay away from THEY, THEY don’t want to see you successful”
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@Nathan Killebrew I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. -Thomas Paine
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"Terrible ideas, don't you just love those" From the movie Under the Tuscan Sun
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Rental Property Investor · Whitefish · Member since 2018 · 69 posts · 32 votes
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"Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford
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Orlando, FL · Member since 2014 · 62 posts · 17 votes
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@Nathan Killebrew
for my minorities;
‘Born to lose, built to win.’
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Realtor · Fort Worth, TX · Member since 2018 · 20 posts · 15 votes
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“A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but because of its persistence”
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Cassandra Sifford
Rental Property Investor · New Castle, DE · Member since 2016 · 376 posts · 158 votes
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"Life's about doing something different!" - Frank Bundy (my old boyfriend ... LOL)
This quote has challenged me for the past few years since we broke up. It's pushed me to be move outside of my usual comfort zones and do something different. That doing something different has gotten me into REI! How thankful I am for Frank in so many ways. He also introduced me to my church home. I can almost kinda say that Frank was my lil gift from God 😇
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Jarred Lustgarten
Rental Property Investor · Member since 2019 · 6 posts · 0 votes
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@Nathan Killebrew
“ That favor is gonna kill you faster than a bullet..”
Carlos Brigante ( Carlito )
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Thomas Hatcher
Rental Property Investor · Ridge Manor, FL · Member since 2019 · 3 posts · 1 vote
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@Nathan Killebrew "Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." -unknown
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Alexandra Hughes PailetPro Member
🎉 Director of Events at BiggerPockets · Denver, CO · Member since 2016 · 430 posts · 438 votes
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou
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Kelly O'Halloran
New to Real Estate · NYC · Member since 2017 · 1 post · 0 votes
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As a longtime lurker here, this seems fitting, feel free to swap in woman for man

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

-Teddy Roosevelt
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Rental Property Investor · Sioux Falls, SD · Member since 2015 · 9k+ posts · 18k+ votes
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"You don't lack resources, you lack resourcefulness." - Anthony Robbins
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Julian Sibley
Lender · Everett, WA · Member since 2017 · 104 posts · 59 votes
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"There is little success where there is little laughter." - Andrew Carnegie
Keep chasing that smile!
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Ryan Wamsat
Member since 2018 · 72 posts · 46 votes
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@Nathan Killebrew I've had this one on my whiteboard for many years: "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." I don't know whom to attribute it to, and I think it's an old Chinese proverb.
After the quote I put "Retirement Planning". This has been a conversation starter for many of my employees, many of whom were recent college grads. And, I'm extremely proud to say that there is a good chance that I have played a small part in their future success leading to retirement. At least, I hope that I have.
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Devin BewleyPro Member
Member since 2019 · 1 post · 0 votes
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"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.
I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. " - Abraham Lincoln
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Ned J.Pro Member
Investor · Manteca, CA · Member since 2017 · 1k+ posts · 2k+ votes
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"Deserves" got nothing to do with it.... Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven
There is" do", or "do not"....there is no "try".... Yoda
"Charlie don't surf!!"...... Robert Duval in Apocolypse Now
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John Kelly
Chicago , IL · Member since 2017 · 17 posts · 2 votes
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If you think like everyone else you’re going to live like everyone else.
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Account Closed
Real Estate Investor · Marysville, OH · Member since 2014 · 242 posts · 196 votes
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I always liked this one: "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
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Alex Garrido
Panama · Member since 2018 · 10 posts · 12 votes
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
- Audrey Hepburn
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James Robertson
Norfolk, VA · Member since 2018 · 15 posts · 4 votes
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"The Standard that you accept is the Standard that you've just set". Army First Sergeant Reginal Manard "99" Vicenza Italy.
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Nick Rutkowski
Rental Property Investor · Ithaca, NY · Member since 2015 · 1k+ posts · 1k+ votes
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@Nathan Killebrew
You are a product of your own environment.
Be the change you wish to seek in this world.
Those are my two.
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Daniel Kong
Rental Property Investor · Honolulu, HI · Member since 2018 · 335 posts · 251 votes
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This is super long, but every time I hear it, it inspires me:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt
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Donald Robers
Kenosha, WI · Member since 2015 · 89 posts · 81 votes
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" Some of us are gifted with intelligence but all of us must earn wisdom." - Don Robers
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Trevor Lybbert
Specialist · Olympia, WA · Member since 2011 · 45 posts · 12 votes
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