Home staging used to be optional. Today, it’s a necessity in selling a house.
BARBARA CORCORANDon’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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I like to wake up and just feel gratitude. Gratitude for waking up, for my health, for my kids, for my family. A lot of times in the evening, I’ll write down what my goals are for the next day; When I wake up, I look at that list again. I meditate.
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Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they’ll determine 80 percent of your success.
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You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
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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.’
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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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If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as ‘new.’
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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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Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
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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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Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
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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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When you feel stuck and can’t seem to move ahead, always remember that you don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going!
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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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Empathy for the people you’re working with and being aware of their needs…that’s the “big kahuna” in managing people.
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Failure is my specialty.
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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.
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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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Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.
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People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
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When you’re building a business, you’re either all in, or you’re not.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to keep your name in the press.
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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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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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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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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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