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If you’re having fun, you wind up innovating.

Barbara Corcoran

Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.
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Flavor Leadership Team Two
Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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Discovery Schemes
Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
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Chance Ending Happy Take
Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they’ll determine 80 percent of your success.
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Determine People Percent
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
Failure is my specialty.
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Failure Motivational Specialty
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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Color Motivational Organization
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 got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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Feet Jobs People
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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Average Media Past
If you want to have a creative culture, you can’t get it by reading books. You get it by example.
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Book Creative Reading
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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Believe Inspirational Mother
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
Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
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Building Crucial Hiring
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
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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Boss Dog Jobs

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