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Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They’re almost like tangent lines – those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.

Barbara Corcoran

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Best People Time Wheel
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
Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
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Depression Guilt Procrastination Put Stop
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
In New York City, the meek don’t inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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City Country Earth Mouth
Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there.
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Believe Motivational Opportunity
All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.
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All Best Past Rejected
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.
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Book People Smart
I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.
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Death Love Myself Names Tickle
A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.
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Color Motivational Organization
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
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?
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Break Even Long Two
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 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
Empathy for the people you’re working with and being aware of their needs…that’s the “big kahuna” in managing people.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Empathy Needs People
If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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Amount House Percent

Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They’re almost like tangent lines – those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.

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Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They’re almost like tangent lines – those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.

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