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Barbara Corcoran

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
Especially if you’re over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
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Mortgage Pay Retirement
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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Kids Motivational Real
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.
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Making Money People Talent
So many people are good at starts and not so good at finishing.
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Finish Good People Start
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
Refinancing doesn’t reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.
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Achieve Debt Want
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there’s a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Attitude Death Eaters People
In New York City, the meek don’t inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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City Country Earth Mouth
Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it.
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Feels Should Way
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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Hobbies House Men
Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your “not to do” list. Post the list where you’ll see it.
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Effort Labels Past
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.
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Country Journal Running Street Wall
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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Fire Ideas Moving
Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
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Employee Motivate Employees
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.
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Calling Cards Sex

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