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Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.

Barbara Corcoran

The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don’t build ‘wiggle room’ into the asking price. There’s a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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Home War Winning
If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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Amount House Percent
You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
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Limelight Share Stealing
When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.
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Chemistry Employee Great
Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they’re interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
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Eight Home Shoes
I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
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Family Investment Thinking
If you’re having fun, you wind up innovating.
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Fun Having Fun Wind
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.
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Book People Smart
No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.
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Cost Interest Loan
If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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Differences Record
Don’t teach talent that isn’t there.
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Lesson Talent Teach
The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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Advertising Important Publicity
If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately…it’s everything.
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Fire Ideas Moving
When you’re building a business, you’re either all in, or you’re not.
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Building Business Success Work
I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it’s a phantom chase.
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Balance Thinking Years
I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% – still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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Entrepreneur Hard Mom Times
When you’re in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it’s a huge advantage.
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Advantage Gimmicks Huge
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn’t want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn’t want a boss.
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Boss Business Jobs Two
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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might People Winner
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 Money More Simple
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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Able Real Stars
I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
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Believe Thinking Weakness
That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.
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Fields Motivational Succeed
The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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Inspiring Sorry Strong Women
Always choose attitude over experience. Always.
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Attitude Choices Motivational
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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Feminine Husband Wife
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.
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Calling Cards Sex

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