Founder & Chairman, Marcus Millichap
Search every verified George Marcus interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. At the 77th Annual Dinner and Business Hall of Fame on September 17, 2023, George Marcus was inducted alongside his wife Judy Marcus. During the event, Marcus reflected on his career, stating that he has been "remarkably fortunate" to have "extraordinarily capable business partners." He described his efforts to innovate in the service industry, noting that he introduced concepts of pricing and market understanding to the commercial brokerage business, which he said was initially met with resistance. Marcus also commented on the housing business, saying it is "very complicated because everyone wants housing but not in their neighborhood" and called for a rational approach to the process. Marcus spoke about his personal history, attributing his success to marrying his wife Judy, whom he said had unwavering confidence in him. He expressed concern about "the most recent political activities" and urged unity, stating, "we have to continue to build our Unity on regardless of what your political reviews are." On philanthropy, Marcus advised the audience to "give back when you can to your local community" and specifically mentioned education as "the number one thing that helps everyone." The event also noted that Marcus co-founded Essex Property Trust and Summer Hill Homes, among other ventures.
“I have been remarkably fortunate in my business career to have such extraordinarily capable business partners you saw one of them up here but I have 20 of them in the room or more. I'm just so fortunate I want to applaud all of you and I have a lot of wonderful memories.”
“I've tried honestly to innovate in a way that doesn't sound like innovation in technology where we are in Silicon Valley but it does really make a difference in the service industry. We haven't really did some remarkable things and I wasn't going to give you some of the statistics but I'm not okay and I'm trying to imp...”
“When I change the brokerage business and it's hard but this is a commercial brokerage now this is not Residential Brokerage. When I was looking at the commercial it made no sense what was going on. People didn't have understandings of pricing they didn't understand what it was where the market was like and so I introdu...”
“I'm in the housing business and the housing business is very complicated because everyone wants housing but not in their neighborhood. It's like that's been going on forever and we just have to kind of rationally walk go through these processes so you're not everyone will be happy but you're going to make some people m...”
“This is a blessing we are so fortunate all of us came from a different part of the world and we're just so fortunate that we can continue to pass on which is a little disturbing with the most recent political activities that are going on the little disturb to most of us I'm sure but when we get over this which I hope w...”
“With all of my success in real estate and Industry people have far more impressed with one thing and please don't ask me to get reservations at kokari please no that's the only thing that people think about because my life is a restaurateur oh my God.”
“I started with a remarkably Good Fortune of marrying this wonderful young lady. I keep joking to her that she proposed to me and she gets really mad when I say that do you think women don't propose ladies I don't even remember you proposing to me so maybe there's a lesson here it's a lesson here okay but her confidence...”
“Philanthropic side says just give back when you can to your local community because we all need help so thank you thank you so much for honoring us.”
“Marcus and Millichap into a real estate Behemoth the largest firm in the nation spanning hundreds of offices and employing thousands along the way Marcus founded or LED numerous other successful real estate financial and investment companies including Essex Property Trust and Summer Hill Homes the largest homebuilder i...”
“Education is probably the number one thing that helps everyone. When the first laws occurred in the United States where you had to go to a certain level of school it was the beginning of really a changing and made this country remarkably different and better with a lot of other aspects of democracy so it's all about yo...”
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