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If you want to have a creative culture, you can’t get it by reading books. You get it by example.

Barbara Corcoran

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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Color Motivational Organization
The worst that could happen is I lose my company and go back to being a waitress. I don’t think money’s a great aspiration for a lot of people that succeed. They they have other motivations that turn them on. And money was not one of mine.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Motivation People Thinking
Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Motivational People Sorry
So many people are good at starts and not so good at finishing.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Finish Good People Start
Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Building Marketing Mom
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Kids Motivational Real
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Beauty Contest Eight Great Lighting
I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Family Investment Thinking
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Country Journal Running Street Wall
Everybody thinks that they’re going to time the market, they’re going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Bottom Matter Thinking
The wheels of justice – they’re square wheels.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Justice Squares Wheels
I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Beautiful Entrepreneur Hate
A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Estates Funny Real
In New York City, the meek don’t inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
BARBARA CORCORAN

City Country Earth Mouth
Refinancing doesn’t reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Achieve Debt Want
When you’re building a business, you’re either all in, or you’re not.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Building Business Success Work

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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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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