Jan Somers Quotes

101 Jan Somers Quotes

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Time, not timing is the key.
Jan Somers

By the time you identify a band wagon, it’s usually gone.
Jan Somers

I believe we make our own luck.
Jan Somers

Good properties usually attract good tenants.
Jan Somers

Turn mountains into molehills.
Jan Somers

All my opportunities have come disguised as problems.
Jan Somers

Make the most of every opportunity that comes your way.
Jan Somers

Sometimes we should be digging for diamonds in our own backyard.
Jan Somers

The older I get, the more I realise just how many investment decisions are psychological. And the dominant factor affecting our mind is usually associated with fear. Fear of failing. Fear of debt. Fear of doing something different. And fear of doing anything at all.
Jan Somers

Our education system focuses more on teaching people the skills to get a job to earn money. It neglects to give people the opportunity to learn the money-management skills which enable them to manage their financial affairs.
Jan Somers



Investors quite often like to formulate their own theories on investment and document what they have done. It helps them ‘see the picture’ better…
Jan Somers

We began investing in property in 1972, but I can honestly say it was not until ten years later that we ‘discovered’ the basic recipe of borrow, buy and keep. Our aim then became to accumulate as many properties as possible to become financially independent.
Jan Somers

I still believe in fixed rate interest-only loans… three quarters of our loans are fixed for staggered periods over five years… the rest of the loans are variable-rates lines of credit…
Jan Somers

External appearances may be an illusion, not a reliable indicator of real wealth… property investors can be those people whom you least expect to be, and at the other end of the scale, well dressed people can own nothing when you wouldn’t think that would be so.
Jan Somers

Often it’s the real estate salesman who knows so much about property who fails to have any of their own… it’s usually the plumber’s house that has rusty gutters or the painter’s house that has peeling paint…
Jan Somers

Always take the sort of loan that allows you to sleep best at night.
Jan Somers

It’s the getting, not the taking, that teaches us about wealth.
Jan Somers

History makes us all property experts.
Jan Somers

Do you know anyone who lost money by keeping residential property in the long term?
Jan Somers

I believe that doing nothing is the greatest risk.
Jan Somers



Just go do it. Start now.
Jan Somers

BONUS –Ian Somers Quote: Life’s too short to drink cheap beer or paint rental properties!
Ian Somers



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