The wheels of justice – they’re square wheels.
BARBARA CORCORANIn business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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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.’
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I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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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.
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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.
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Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there.
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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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I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.
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Always choose attitude over experience. Always.
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When you’re in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it’s a huge advantage.
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You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
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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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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.
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If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately…it’s everything.
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The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of ‘curb appeal.’
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Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it’s a phantom chase.
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I hadn’t learned to read by third grade, which wasn’t unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn’t see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn’t the least bit bothered – until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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When you’re building a business, you’re either all in, or you’re not.
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Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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If you’re having fun, you wind up innovating.
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I like to wake up and just feel gratitude. Gratitude for waking up, for my health, for my kids, for my family. A lot of times in the evening, I’ll write down what my goals are for the next day; When I wake up, I look at that list again. I meditate.
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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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