I’m never in control of my time during the workday.
BARBARA CORCORANMake sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they’ll determine 80 percent of your success.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you’ll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!
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If you’ve got the money, you need people to make money with your money. And if you have the talent, you can always merchandise your talent to someone who’s got the money and make money. There’s two pieces to it: talent and money.
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Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
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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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So many people are good at starts and not so good at finishing.
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When you’re a big money earner and your husband isn’t, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or ‘Mrs. Higgins.
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You can’t study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.
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Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
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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.
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If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn’t like that very much.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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I hadn’t learned to read by third grade, which wasn’t unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn’t see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn’t the least bit bothered – until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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The wheels of justice – they’re square wheels.
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