“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.”

I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.

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!

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.

I don’t invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don’t have charisma.

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.

Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

I’m never in control of my time during the workday.

My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There’s no way I can control him. I wouldn’t stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your “not to do” list. Post the list where you’ll see it.

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

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.

The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to keep your name in the press.

The power of publicity is more important than advertising.

I’m not scared of Tiger. I’m not scared to go head-to-head. I’m not scared to have a long-drive contest with him.

A nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about.

People are ready to do either, and the content has to work on both.

This contest between the secular and religious visions of government is really the main choice to be made

You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal.

Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.

You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.

You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.