“If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as ‘new.’”

The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.

I hadn’t learned to read by third grade, which wasn’t unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn’t see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn’t the least bit bothered – until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

In New York City, the meek don’t inherit the earth. The big mouth does.

Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.

Home staging used to be optional. Today, it’s a necessity in selling a house.

Empathy for the people you’re working with and being aware of their needs…that’s the “big kahuna” in managing people.

Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I’m not saying that’s the only calling card, but it’s a whole crayon box.

Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there.

If you want to have a creative culture, you can’t get it by reading books. You get it by example.

If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there’s a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

It’s rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn’t find that was true of my top super stars either.

Confidence is overrated. It’s when we’re uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.

I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.

I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes – not necessarily because these people are going to be doing pushups or spiking volleyballs in the workplace, but because they’re looking for that continuity, that person who was gritty about something.

I’ve heard a few times, in three or four years, this league is going to be yours. I don’t like that. Because I think I’m established now.

The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it’s called the American dream.

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.