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Failure is my specialty.

Barbara Corcoran

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
My mother’s genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Believe Inspirational Mother
I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Giving Jobs Parent
I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Death Love Myself Names Tickle
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
Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Depression Guilt Procrastination Put Stop
Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Building Crucial Hiring
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
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Calling Cards Sex
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Country Journal Running Street Wall
Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Employee Motivate Employees
If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you’ll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!
BARBARA CORCORAN

Forever Gut Way
Don’t get cocky just because you’ve had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you’ve earned it.
BARBARA CORCORAN

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

Effort Labels Past
If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Differences Record

Failure is my specialty.

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