Sam Zell Quotes

#1. The question is not do you take money out of stocks and put it into real estate, or the reverse. There's so much money out there looking for a home. I don't think it's either/or.

Sam Zell

#2. When you got a demand issue it's hard to imagine the stock market at an all-time high.

Sam Zell

#3. I can't imagine anything being more disastrous to our country than if the dollar lost its reserve-currency status.

Sam Zell

#4. The single biggest issue that I'm very sensitive to is inflation. I'm very concerned that this extended period where the interest rates were quite low and stimulated a lot of activity could breed inflation and create a problem for us.

Sam Zell

#5. I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity ... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

Beverly Sills

#6. I've always been called a professional opportunist, and in the future I'm open to anything. We've spent a lot of time offshore, looking at opportunities in real estate outside the United States.

Sam Zell

#7. The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line.

Sam Zell

#8. If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate.

Sam Zell

#9. THE BIBLE, IN ALL ITS PARTS, IS INTENDED to communicate to humanity the realities of redemption. Over

Sandra L. Richter

#10. When all is said and done, what must be remembered is a newspaper is a business. It used to be a fabulous business that made extraordinary margins. It's now a very good business with appropriate margins.

Sam Zell

#11. I was
the girl of the chain letter,
the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes,
the one of the telephone bills,
the wrinkled photo and the lost connections ...

Anne Sexton

#12. You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

Jack White

#13. Just by being private, the culture will change. We won't be forced to make decisions that are 90 days in relevance.

Sam Zell

#14. Live life with passion from our hearts and believe. Let love be the reason and purpose of life

Jerrycel Verlinden

#15. Everyone likes pussy. It's un-American not to like pussy.

Sam Zell

#16. In my case, if one out of five opportunities is interesting enough to work on, maybe one in five of those ends up being worth doing. That might be a function of risk. That might be a function of price. There are all the variables. But you have to be constantly sorting and choosing and prioritizing.

Sam Zell