| On Hughes & Company, Inc. : |
| Steve Hughes loves a good challenge, which is the main reason that he’s worked on more than 160 golf assignments since 1986 . . . |
| - Golf Inc. magazine, July 2002 |
| Selling our golf club and private community was a very complicated process. Steve Hughes did a great job of preparing offering packages, marketing the property and advising us on management and development of the real estate until we completed the sale. |
| - Russell Brown, Board Chairman, Harry J. Lloyd Charitable Trust |
| Golf course appraisers need a wealth of knowledge and market analysis techniques that are unique to the golf industry. |
| - Stephen R. Hughes, Golf Course Management magazine, July 1999 |
| I wish I had met Steve Hughes before I started this development and not in the middle of it. |
| - Anonymous initial owner of resort golf course community |
| On the importance of valuation advice : |
| I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. |
| - Benjamin Franklin |
| On historical performance versus potential : |
| We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing; others judge us by what we have done. |
| - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| On the importance of analysis : |
| . . . recognize the character of his material and give to it an orderly arrangement. This end can be secured only by a systematic method, a scientific attitude, and extended labor. |
| - Lewis Sperry Chafer |
| On the importance of humility : |
| He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. |
| - Tryon Edwards |
| On the importance of market data : |
| Knowledge is the environment for thinking. |
| - R. B. Thieme, Jr. |
| If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don’t get all the facts, it can’t be right. |
| - Bernard M. Baruch |
| On dealing with sellers : |
| When dealing with people remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice, and motivated by pride and vanity. |
| - Dale Carnegie |
| . . . then it shall be sold according to your valuation. |
| - Leviticus 27:27 |
| On the importance of experience : |
| When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. |
| - Mark Twain |
