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 CORCORANThe 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.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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The wheels of justice – they’re square wheels.
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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.
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No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.
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I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% – still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.
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Empathy for the people you’re working with and being aware of their needs…that’s the “big kahuna” in managing people.
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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.
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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.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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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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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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If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as ‘new.’
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You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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In New York City, the meek don’t inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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Confidence is overrated. It’s when we’re uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.
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Insecurity is a wonderful motivator.
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I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
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That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.
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All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.
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The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don’t build ‘wiggle room’ into the asking price. There’s a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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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.
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The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it… but they come back up and say ‘hit me again.’
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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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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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It’s rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn’t find that was true of my top super stars either.
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