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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.

Barbara Corcoran

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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All Best Past Rejected
Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
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Building Crucial Hiring
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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Kids Reading School
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
The worst that could happen is I lose my company and go back to being a waitress. I don’t think money’s a great aspiration for a lot of people that succeed. They they have other motivations that turn them on. And money was not one of mine.
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Motivation People Thinking
That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.
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Fields Motivational Succeed
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
People want to do business with someone they like. If people like you, they’re going to want to do business with you. And if they don’t you’re going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.
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Motivational Overcome People
If you’re having fun, you wind up innovating.
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Fun Having Fun Wind
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
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
Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
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Depression Guilt Procrastination Put Stop
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
The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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Advertising Important Publicity
My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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Empowering Inspirational Strong Women
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you’re quoted in the ‘Wall Street Journal,’ the ‘New York Times,’ constantly as the expert in the business people assume you’re a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Country Journal Running Street Wall

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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