Tom Shallcross
Rental Property Investor · Chicago · Member since 2018 · 613 posts · 1k+ votes
6y
If you're interested you'll do what's convenient, if you're committed you'll do whatever it takes - John Asaraf
Most folks are interested in real estate but very few commit once they realize there is actual work involved. Remind yourself to commit.
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Mitch Messer
Lender · Playa del Carmen, México · Member since 2014 · 2k+ posts · 1k+ votes
6y
Hi @Ashley Cao, I love the question!
My all-time favorite is from the legendary Zig Ziglar:
"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
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Mark Sewell
Investor · Houston, TX · Member since 2017 · 1k+ posts · 871 votes
6y
Originally posted by @Mitch Messer:
Hi @Ashley Cao, I love the question!
My all-time favorite is from the legendary Zig Ziglar:
"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

This was why I decided to go to work here as a loan officer with a HM lender. The sooner I help 99 other people succeed, the sooner I get to join them. And it's fun and I'm getting to learn and grow in the process.

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Scott Passman
Rental Property Investor · Batavia, IL · Member since 2018 · 452 posts · 672 votes
6y
When I came across this quote in a Tim Ferris podcast it instantly became a motto for me both personally and in investing:
"Easy Choices, Hard Life. Hard Choices, Easy Life."
It’s difficult to make the hard decisions to be disciplined, sacrifice, and do what you know needs to be done. But if you do, things are much easier later on. The opposite holds true. Making the quick and easy decisions now usually leads to more difficult and painful decisions later. This all goes back to thinking long-term. Instead of focusing on what I could get out of a decision right now, I consider the long-term benefits/consequences out of everything I do and how things may add up or break down over time.

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Kenneth GarrettPro Member
Investor · Florida Panhandle/Illinois · Member since 2016 · 4k+ posts · 3k+ votes
6y
@Ashley Cao

“As I said, I wish I could say it was easy. It wasn’t, but it wasn’t hard either. But without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard. ” – Robert Kiyosaki

When I look at real estate investing it's not hard to find a property rehab It and rent it out (BRRRR). It takes education. When I first stated to learn I thought I new what a deal was. I was very wrong, but I learned. It takes risk (guts) but a calculated risk.
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Terrell Garren
Rental Property Investor · Concord, NC · Member since 2016 · 1k+ posts · 3k+ votes
6y
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work (Thomas Edison)
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure (Colin Powell)
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Jonathan R McLaughlin
Rental Property Investor · Boston, Massachusetts (MA) · Member since 2016 · 2k+ posts · 2k+ votes
6y
For every person who has not yet gotten their big break there are 10 others who got it and did not recognize it.—
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Tanvir Sattar
Rental Property Investor · Cincinnati, OH · Member since 2020 · 380 posts · 588 votes
6y
“Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.”

Andrew Carnegie
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Daniel HymanBusiness Member
CPA · Milwaukee, WI · Member since 2016 · 2k+ posts · 1k+ votes
6y
I just a read a book by Scott Adams. He makes a case for building a system instead of setting goals.
A goal would be a specific objective that you either achieve or don't in the future. A system would be something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds for happiness regardless of the outcome.
For instance I might have a goal of losing 20 pounds. If I reach it-great. But if not-then what?
But if my system is to exercise daily, then I increase my chances of happiness regardless of the outcome.
I thought it was interesting food for thought and could be applied to real estate. I could have a goal of acquiring x amount of properties per year. But perhaps its more fulfilling to have a system of making x amounts of offers per year.
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Esther Min
New to Real Estate · Member since 2018 · 38 posts · 23 votes
6y
@Ashley Cao
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” - Abraham Lincoln
A short simple go-getter quote especially in times of uncertainty!
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Crencenthia F Brown
Flipper/Rehabber · Durham, NC · Member since 2020 · 55 posts · 12 votes
6y
@Scott Passman I like this one... Thanks for sharing it.
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Crencenthia F Brown
Flipper/Rehabber · Durham, NC · Member since 2020 · 55 posts · 12 votes
6y
@Kenneth Garrett wow yes it does
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Crencenthia F Brown
Flipper/Rehabber · Durham, NC · Member since 2020 · 55 posts · 12 votes
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@Terrell Garren love this... Some are worried about the outside then what the inside may afford you...
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Crencenthia F Brown
Flipper/Rehabber · Durham, NC · Member since 2020 · 55 posts · 12 votes
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@Daniel Hyman wow! Food of thought. I see it making sense. Because when you don't make that goal you feel like you failed. So If I build a system around that goal I have another option to reach it.. You should awe my fave right now.. I've been reading these quotes. But this is really making me rethink some things. Thank you for sharing this.
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Darius Ogloza
Investor · Marin County California · Member since 2018 · 1k+ posts · 2k+ votes
6y
"The rent check is in the mail."
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Chris John
Member since 2020 · 671 posts · 937 votes
6y
"Win win, win, win, win"
Jay Rock

"All I do is win win win no matter what"
DJ Khaled

My wife might be right. I might not be very introspective. haha. I love this thread though. Great question!
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Crencenthia F Brown
Flipper/Rehabber · Durham, NC · Member since 2020 · 55 posts · 12 votes
6y
@Esther Min is so true.
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Crencenthia F Brown
Flipper/Rehabber · Durham, NC · Member since 2020 · 55 posts · 12 votes
6y
@Ashley Cao I don't know who said this but I hear it a lot form other investors that are living there goals and dreams.
Place yourself around others that goals and dreams are much bigger than yours and they are living and doing both. For you can know you can reach your dreams and goals.
If you place yourself around just thinkers and sayers that's all that you are going to become.
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Joseph CacciapagliaBusiness Member
Lender · San Antonio, TX · Member since 2020 · 1k+ posts · 1k+ votes
6y
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything,”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Ray Evans
Flipper/Rehabber · Member since 2020 · 57 posts · 36 votes
6y
@Ashley Cao I like “people over profits”
If you take the time to find folks motivation,you can offer solutions in both acquiring properties and selling as well.I just recently helped a woman get out of a failing house on the brink of foreclosure ,renovated and sold to a woman hoping to move her mother in,so she could care for her.We heard from her agent that she cried happy tears after we accepted her offer over list price.
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Steven Zoernack
Investor · Sarasota, FL · Member since 2020 · 12 posts · 11 votes
6y
@Ray Evans
When I was younger a big developer in Stamford CT told me that no matter how much money you make, you're still a dollar short at the end of the week. I thought that was especially interesting since he was at the time the most successful CRE developer in Fairfield County.
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Cheyenne McMeeken
Rental Property Investor · Racine, OH · Member since 2020 · 1 post · 1 vote
6y
@Ashley Cao
"Fund your future first." -rather than putting left overs at the end of the week in savings, prioritize your future self.
"Focus on the 'why?' " When you experience those overwhelming times in your work, remember why your. Doing it in the first place. If the reason is strong enough, you keep going.
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Michael Ryland
Roseville, CA · Member since 2018 · 29 posts · 40 votes
6y
@Ashley Cao I have several that I like. Here’s a few.
“Anyone can do it. Most people won’t. “
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.”Mike Tyson
Fight the battle don’t fight the plan.
“I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. “ Ronald Reagan
I really love the last one because it’s action oriented.
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Jeff Sims
Residential Real Estate Broker · Greensboro, NC · Member since 2015 · 14 posts · 68 votes
6y
Got a few:
Plan the work then work the plan.
In order to be successful you only have to work half a day. What you do with the other half is up to you.
While you might not realize it at the time, there are only a handful of life changing moments in a person's life.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Write down your goals, they have a way of coming true.
Rich and wealthy are not the same. Being rich lasts a day. Being wealthy lasts a lifetime.
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Sharlene Burch
Member since 2019 · 47 posts · 100 votes
6y
@Daniel Hyman can you share the name of the book? Sounds interesting

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