The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it… but they come back up and say ‘hit me again.’
BARBARA CORCORANMy 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.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.
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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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Insecurity is a wonderful motivator.
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Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there.
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The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
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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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The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.
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When you’re building a business, you’re either all in, or you’re not.
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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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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there’s a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
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Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
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Confidence is overrated. It’s when we’re uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There’s no way I can control him. I wouldn’t stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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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 a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head
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Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They’re almost like tangent lines – those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
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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 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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Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
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