“Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.”

Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.

Home staging used to be optional. Today, it’s a necessity in selling a house.

Empathy for the people you’re working with and being aware of their needs…that’s the “big kahuna” in managing people.

Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I’m not saying that’s the only calling card, but it’s a whole crayon box.

Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there.

If you want to have a creative culture, you can’t get it by reading books. You get it by example.

If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there’s a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

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.

Confidence is overrated. It’s when we’re uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.

I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.

Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

My mother’s genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours.

I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it’s a phantom chase.