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Barbara Corcoran

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
BARBARA CORCORAN

Limelight Share Stealing
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Eight Home Shoes
Home staging used to be optional. Today, it’s a necessity in selling a house.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Home House Today
When you’re in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it’s a huge advantage.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Advantage Gimmicks Huge
Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Building Crucial Hiring
It’s rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn’t find that was true of my top super stars either.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Able Real Stars
I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Family Investment Thinking
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
Failure is my specialty.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Failure Motivational Specialty
A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Estates Funny Real
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 don’t invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don’t have charisma.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Charisma Entrepreneur
Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Chance Ending Happy Take
Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Maximizing Minimizing Negative
When you’re building a business, you’re either all in, or you’re not.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Building Business Success Work
If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Amount House Percent

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