Lately, for whatever reason, I have been collecting "sayings". If the quotation or anonymous saying strikes my fancy I write it down or simply rip it out of the printed page for later use. Following are the most recent additions to my collection. I can only wish to be so clever as to have come up with any one of them or to some day have my own "saying" worth remembering.
"It is the characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their attention, supposing it to be new." -- Calvin Coolidge
That one I like for no other reason than it resonates with me, as does the following:
"There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots."
I like the construction of the next one and how the addition or deletion of one word changes everything. It certainly applies to real estate agents.
"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters." --Alan Simpson
Following is one that I stole, but I don't remember from whom. You get the irony in a guy using a quotation on integrity and in the next sentence stating that he stole a saying?
"When evaluating a real estate agent, effort is admirable. Achievement is even better."
I think that is good advice for evaluating much more than real estate agents. It is far from the whole story, though. Achievement obtained through dishonest or unethical means is but dust in the mouth. (Maybe that can be my quotation!)
My last saying also has an application in the practice of real estate. I printed it out, framed it up, and put it on my office wall as the "Thought For Today."
"Some things you have to see in order to believe. Some things you have to believe in order to see."
The application of this saying to real estate would be in attempting to reassure hesitant buyers that, yes indeed, this property is the right one for you, and yes indeed, it can be everything you want it to be if you believe that it can be, but first you have to make an offer or it will never happen.