The Millionaire Real Estate Investor Quotes

“Instead of forgetting your dreams and living within your means, try pursuing the means to live your dreams.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time—all of them.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“Small plans at best yield small results, and big plans at worst beat small plans.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“Generally, real estate is cyclical. You have to buy in a way that lets you afford the cycles. And you have to know where you are in the cycle.” Charles”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“Most people think buying is investing, but they’re wrong. Buying doesn’t make you an investor any more than buying groceries makes you a chef.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“Charity is a kind of capital investment for the soul that pays real dividends in your life and in the quality of all life.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“Living life as an investor means first living a life of less Consumption than the media would have you believe you should. It requires listening to wisdom—not to the world.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“It’s what the authors of The Millionaire Next Door referred to as ‘big hat—no cattle.’ In the context of this book, it’s ‘big house—no investments’ or, even worse, ‘big car—no house.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“We call it Shadow Wealth because when you live a life of consumption, it can give the appearance of wealth without any of the substance.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“Reinvesting your Cash Flow creates a financial wealth-building machine that feeds itself and has the potential to grow exponentially over time.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“When you invest in Capital first, an amazing thing happens: Slowly but surely your money starts to work for you.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“What you do with your money in the beginning will dictate what you’re able to do in the end.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“Investors build their financial lives on Capital, while consumers build theirs on Consumption. It’s a little like the old Sunday school song about building your house on the rock instead of the sinking sand.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“Most people are in the dark about money. They live from paycheck to paycheck in a twilight world with only the dim candle of conventional financial thinking to light the way.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“As soon as they made that connection, the pursuit of the knowledge of money—its history, its rules, and its disciplines—became a primary focus for them.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“We all have a fundamental choice in our financial lives: the path of earned income or the path of unearned income. In other words, you can work for money or money can work for you.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“Big Goals, Big Models, and Big Habits do more than just direct you—they also protect you!”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“There is no such thing as a neutral habit. Habits are either good or bad. They either lift you up or drag you down.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. — Fyodor Dostoevsky”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“It’s been said that if you don’t know where you’re going, any path will get you there. Interestingly, the opposite is equally true: If you know where you’re going, there is a best path for getting there.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“The power that comes from following Big Models and developing the Big Habits to implement them. You’re so focused on doing things in a manner that will get you to your Big Goal that you are pulled right past the smaller ones.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“While most people would say they want a great life, they rarely plan beyond the current year. As a result, they choose a financial model that fits only their short-term goals, and that financial shortsightedness can be devastating to their long-term dreams.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“Big Goals force you to restate your Big Why in specific and measurable terms, and Big Models represent the proven systems and activities that will get you to those Big Goals.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“There’s only a small difference between living a great life in your head and living a great life in reality, but that small difference makes all the difference.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“Life is too big to think small. If you want to lead a big life, your thinking has to lead the way.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“A Big Why brings incredible power and enormous stamina to your financial focus, and big financial success requires that.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“The power and reach of your motivation often dictate the level of your success.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“Big Whys related to achieving your highest potential are in my experience the most powerful.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor

“Life is very different when you move from want-tos to have-tos, and a truly significant Big Why causes you to make that transition.”
― Gary Keller, The Millionaire Real Estate Investor