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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

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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Kids Reading School
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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Eight Home Shoes
Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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Motivational People Sorry
Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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Maximizing Minimizing Negative
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.
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Beauty Contest Eight Great Lighting
No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.
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Cost Interest Loan
The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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Advertising Important Publicity
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!
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Moving Remember Stuck
Empathy for the people you’re working with and being aware of their needs…that’s the “big kahuna” in managing people.
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Empathy Needs People
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.
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Boss Dog Jobs
Confidence is overrated. It’s when we’re uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.
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Answers Grows Uncomfortable
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
A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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Estates Funny Real
The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head
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Business Entrepreneur Thinking
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!
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Forever Gut Way
The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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Inspiring Sorry Strong Women

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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