“If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.”

When you’re building a business, you’re either all in, or you’re not.

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.

You can’t study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.

Failure is my specialty.

I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.

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!

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.

I don’t invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don’t have charisma.

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.

Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

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.

I’m never in control of my time during the workday.

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.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

You need 100 percent concentration on golf to succeed.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

Eventually the banking systems of all advanced economies reach magnitudes of 500 percent,

1000 percent or more of GDP, so that every economy starts to have financial systems that resemble recent cases like Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland, or Cyprus. That might be a very fragile world to live in.

In your country club, your church, and business, about fifteen percent of the people are screwballs, lightweights, and boobs, and you would not want those people unrepresented in Congress.

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

I am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don’t need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life.