“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.”

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.

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.’

Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they’ll determine 80 percent of your success.

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.

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.’

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

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.

I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.

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.

Don’t be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It’s when you’re uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.

Refinancing doesn’t reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.

Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.

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.

People imitate their leader. Lead by example.

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.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby’s temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who’s boss.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

Good luck, boss. Don’t let’em turn you into horse meat! (Blackjack)

The audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don’t have to listen to everything they think or say.

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.