Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
BARBARA CORCORANHarebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.
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Everybody thinks that they’re going to time the market, they’re going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
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Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
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Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They’re almost like tangent lines – those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
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Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
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The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
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When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.
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Don’t get cocky just because you’ve had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you’ve earned it.
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The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.
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My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There’s no way I can control him. I wouldn’t stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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I like to wake up and just feel gratitude. Gratitude for waking up, for my health, for my kids, for my family. A lot of times in the evening, I’ll write down what my goals are for the next day; When I wake up, I look at that list again. I meditate.
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Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
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I’ve seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.
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Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.
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Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
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So many people are good at starts and not so good at finishing.
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I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don’t jump on something right away, it’s like a bird flying by-it flies off.
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Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they’ll determine 80 percent of your success.
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Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
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It’s rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn’t find that was true of my top super stars either.
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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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If you’re having fun, you wind up innovating.
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You can’t study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.
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