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The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

Barbara Corcoran

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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Able Real Stars
Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Maximizing Minimizing Negative
Empathy for the people you’re working with and being aware of their needs…that’s the “big kahuna” in managing people.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Empathy Needs People
If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
BARBARA CORCORAN

might People Winner
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Eight Home Shoes
Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Heart Home Thinking
I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Beautiful Entrepreneur Hate
Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Flavor Leadership Team Two
Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Feels Should Way
The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head
BARBARA CORCORAN

Business Entrepreneur Thinking
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Boss Business Jobs Two
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
I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don’t jump on something right away, it’s like a bird flying by-it flies off.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Bird Flying Tiny
You can’t study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Entrepreneur Sometimes Study
The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Advertising Important Publicity
I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Family Investment Thinking

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