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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

Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Building Crucial Hiring
People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
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Example Leader People
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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Average Media Past
I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
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Family Investment Thinking
I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.
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Beautiful Entrepreneur Hate
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.
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Book People Smart
When you’re in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it’s a huge advantage.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Advantage Gimmicks Huge
If someone doesn’t fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you’re holding them back from excelling elsewhere.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Company Fit Obligation
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Determine People Percent
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Believe Inspirational Mother
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Feminine Husband Wife
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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Gratitude Kids Writing
If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you’ll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!
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Forever Gut Way
If you want to be noticed, dress the part.
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Dress Motivational Want
A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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Estates Funny Real

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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