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Confidence is overrated. It’s when we’re uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.

Barbara Corcoran

Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it.
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Feels Should Way
Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
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Building Crucial Hiring
When you’re a big money earner and your husband isn’t, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or ‘Mrs. Higgins.
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Feminine Husband Wife
Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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Instinct Motivational Natural Underestimate
People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
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Example Leader People
The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
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Billions Dollars Stories
Always choose attitude over experience. Always.
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Attitude Choices Motivational
If you’re having fun, you wind up innovating.
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Fun Having Fun Wind
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
My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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Empowering Inspirational Strong Women
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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Break Even Long Two
I’ve never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I was playing outside.
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Differences Ideas Outside Play
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
I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.
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Beautiful Entrepreneur Hate
Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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Motivational People Sorry
Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.
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Creativity Innovation Running
I’m never in control of my time during the workday.
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Control During never Time Workday
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
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
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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Attitude Death Eaters People
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 did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.
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Giving Jobs Parent
Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
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Employee Motivate Employees
The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head
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Business Entrepreneur Thinking
You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
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Limelight Share Stealing
When you’re in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it’s a huge advantage.
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Advantage Gimmicks Huge
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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Hobbies House Men

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