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When you’re in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it’s a huge advantage.

Barbara Corcoran

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
I’ve seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.
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Innovation Money More Simple
Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I’m not saying that’s the only calling card, but it’s a whole crayon box.
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Calling Cards Sex
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.
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Amazing Kids Mother Woman
Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they’ll determine 80 percent of your success.
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Determine People Percent
Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
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Chance Ending Happy Take
That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.
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Fields Motivational Succeed
I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
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Agents Real Seven
When you’re in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it’s a huge advantage.
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Advantage Gimmicks Huge
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
People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
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Example Leader People
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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Home War Winning
Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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Motivational People Sorry
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
Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
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Building Crucial Hiring
In New York City, the meek don’t inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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City Country Earth Mouth

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