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I hadn’t learned to read by third grade, which wasn’t unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn’t see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn’t the least bit bothered – until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

Barbara Corcoran

Don’t get cocky just because you’ve had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you’ve earned it.
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Cocky Loses Running
I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.
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Death Love Myself Names Tickle
Insecurity is a wonderful motivator.
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Insecurity Motivator Wonderful
Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your “not to do” list. Post the list where you’ll see it.
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Effort Labels Past
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.
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Motivation People Thinking
When you’re in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it’s a huge advantage.
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Advantage Gimmicks Huge
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn’t want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn’t want a boss.
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Boss Business Jobs Two
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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Differences Record
I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn’t like that very much.
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Boss Dog Jobs
I don’t invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don’t have charisma.
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Charisma Entrepreneur
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
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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Moving Remember Stuck
Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.
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Flavor Leadership Team Two
Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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Discovery Schemes
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 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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Country Journal Running Street Wall

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