| On Golf : |
| Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at. |
| - Jimmy Demaret |
| If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. |
| - Jack Lemmon |
| Golf is a good walk spoiled. |
| - Mark Twain |
| Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five. |
| - Paul Harvey |
| I don't care to join any club that's prepared to have me as a member. |
| - Groucho Marx |
| On Hughes & Company, Inc. : |
| We appreciate the work you provided, the experience was pleasant and thank you for your speedy response and professional manner. |
| - Gary Harker, Director of Recreation, City of Burnsville, MN |
| We settled the appeal … thank you for a solid work product, you did a nice job. |
| JW Chatam (Ad Valorem tax consultants) |
| 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 |
| 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 Valuation : |
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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.
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| - Benjamin Franklin |
| Knowledge is the environment for thinking. |
| - R. B. Thieme, Jr. (importance of market data) |
| We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing; others judge us by what we have done. |
| - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (historical income vs. projections) |
| 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 |
| . . . 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 Life : |
| Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure … than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. |
| - Theodore Roosevelt |
| Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. |
| - C.S. Lewis |
| 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 |
| On Brokerage : |
| 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 |
| 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 |
