Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it.
BARBARA CORCORANThe wheels of justice – they’re square wheels.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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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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Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your “not to do” list. Post the list where you’ll see it.
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I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.
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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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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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If you want to be noticed, dress the part.
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I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
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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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Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
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All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.
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The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
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A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of ‘curb appeal.’
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Refinancing doesn’t reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
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Home staging used to be optional. Today, it’s a necessity in selling a house.
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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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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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Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
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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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