KNB Quotes from Nothing Down for Women
ABOUT LIFE:
"One can judge a life by its problems. The highest order of problem would be to find wise ways to distribute one’s wealth and its energy for noble results."
"My prayer or vision every morning says this: “Something wonderful is going to happen.” That way, the universe can engage me in delightful surprises I would have never thought to ask for."
"State of the heart wins over state of the art every time."
"The less we stress, the more we soar."
"Motto for the day: Rule out the phrase “I don’t have enough money”. Strike it from your vocabulary. It’s very hard to remove this phrase, and it’s equally hard to remove the thinking.
Let’s find something to replace it with, something that will be congruent with your core beliefs. If you really believe you don’t have enough money, just saying you do have enough won’t be believed by the core-level you. Let’s replace it with this:
“Where can I get it?”
This phrase flips your mind into problem-solving mode. It takes away the victim mind-set and replaces it with the problem-solving mind-set. “Where can I get it?” isn’t a phrase that your core self will have any trouble agreeing with—it’s congruent.
Never: I don’t have enough. Always: Where can I get it?
Where can I get it?"
"Money is a symbol . . . a symbol of energy . . . human energy, to be precise."
"The best problem one could have is finding wise ways to distribute one’s money and its energy."
ABOUT REAL ESTATE INVESTING:
"Let’s be the “other” investors. Let’s really, truly help people avoid foreclosure. Let’s not just give lip service to helping others, let’s help from the deepest part of our hearts."
"We’re not in the house business; we’re in the people business."
"Good money flows to good deals. Great money flows to great deals. What kind of money flows to mediocre deals? Mediocre money? No. No money flows to mediocre deals. So your job is to find good deals and great deals, and good money and great money will flow to them."
"I’ll take it. I’ll take it (if I can work out the details). I’ll take it!"
"Our fundamental products in the real-estate investing game are hope
and help."
"The best tool an investor can have is her ability to listen."
"Motto for the day: Give them out! (WELL, IT’S NOT EXACTLY A MOTTO, IS IT? JUST DO IT!) (Referring to business cards.)"
"No and next are my two favorite companion words. Every time I hear ‘no,’ I say ‘next,’ and I know I’m that much closer to my next deal!" —KAREN NELSON BELL
“Location, location, location” as a mantra leaves out 80 percent of the proper decision-making process.
"Stinky Houses are potential gold mines to me!"
"A house is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it, not what the comp is, not what the appraisal is, but exactly what someone is willing to pay for it!"
"Am I worried about a real-estate bubble? No. If you work it right, a downturn in prices can be bubblelicious. When the other investors are all cryin’, I’ll be buyin’."
"Use credit only for things that go up in value."
"No tenants, no toilets, no trash, no trouble for me—the lease-option buyer gets to take care of everything!"
"Deal first, funding follows."
"Every house started out as a lovely home where people imagined they’d live happily ever after. Restoring charm to a broken property is the equivalent of restoring a dream to a broken heart. I love the transformation."
KNB QUOTES ABOUT WOMEN
"Successful women know that true joy lies in giving."
"Women are all “working women.” We’re all working like crazy, trying to stitch together a quilt of life that makes sense and brings happiness to the people around us".
"Powerful women don’t trust in luck, they create it; they know that the harder they work the luckier they get."
"Let us women be the “other” investors. Let’s not just give lip service to helping others, let’s help from the deepest part of our hearts."
"Women instinctively know that we’re not in the house business; we’re in the people business."
"Women understand that every house started out as a lovely home where people imagined they’d live happily ever after. For us, restoring charm to a broken property is the equivalent of restoring a dream to a broken heart. We love the transformation."
"Women’s fundamental products in the real-estate investing game are hope and help."
"One of the reasons a woman makes a great real estate investor is that the best tool an investor can have is her ability to listen."
"With 51% of all women living without a spouse, it’s no wonder that 23% of all homes bought in America were purchased by single women (compared to 9% single men)!"
"Did you know that 54 percent of all real-estate agents are women? Women dominate that field, and the same attributes that make them good at it make women naturally good at investing too."
"Women I’ve met all over the country have told me they’re exhausted physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and financially. It’s time for a change."
FROM ND4W:
"When I told my friends I wanted to call this book Nothing Down for Blondes, they wouldn’t hear of it. They informed me that they were highly offended (blondes, brunettes, and redheads alike). However, blonde Teresa said that even though the title put her off, when she read further, she got the point. It’s much more offensive to me that there are still millions of women who have been convinced they can’t. Can’t what? Just CAN’T, with all caps. Can’t do this, can’t have that, can’t understand, can’t accomplish. It’s my least favorite word in the English language."
"In truth, Nothing Down for Women isn’t just for women, it’s for people everywhere who are either intimidated or frustrated by subjects they’ve been told were complex."
"It’s a sad statistic that many girls are still persuaded that they are less able in every way. There are women who are intimidated before they even open to the first page of a real-estate book. They assume it will be too hard, too confusing, or too math-centric."
"The pressures on women to be everything, do everything, and have everything result in the fact that now women are multitasking so furiously, there’s not one minute left in the day. Delivering the data simply and in short, digestible bits may be the single most appealing reason why women find Nothing Down for Women so tasty."
"All the researchers agreed that women actually hear better than men, and that we’re especially good at distinguishing very high-pitched noises. Our brain is grooved in to hear a baby crying during the night. Not only that, women have better ability to differentiate tone changes in voices. Pitch and volume perceptions allow women to hear emotional changes as well. Often, women think men don’t listen, and compared to us, it apparently is true! When success in a business depends on listening, as it does in real-estate investing, women reign. These hearing advantages contribute to the notion of “women’s intuition” and are part of the reasons why women are capable of “reading between the lines.” Go ahead and trust your women’s intuition in your investing career. You’ve got science backing you up!"
