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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

Barbara Corcoran

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Amazing Kids Mother Woman
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
Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Motivational People Sorry
Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Employee Motivate Employees
I’ve never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I was playing outside.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Differences Ideas Outside Play
Failure is my specialty.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Failure Motivational Specialty
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
The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Inspiring Sorry Strong Women
Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Chance Ending Happy Take
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
The wheels of justice – they’re square wheels.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Justice Squares Wheels
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.’
BARBARA CORCORAN

Four House Two
Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must!
BARBARA CORCORAN

Estates Home Real
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
Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Asks Assuming Plenty
I’m never in control of my time during the workday.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Control During never Time Workday

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

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