I don't think the market can keep going up. In the U.S., we see real estate not going up.. houses are selling at lower prices. You can't have anything going up 10 percent to 20 percent to 30 percent indefinitely.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge.

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable.

I'd rather be respected than loved.

At a time when all the other builders were selling homes with basements but without carports, we would sell homes without basements and with carports. This allowed us to provide a more appealing product at a lower price. In other words, we felt we would be giving customers greater value.