The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
BARBARA CORCORANI wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% – still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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Confidence is overrated. It’s when we’re uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.
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Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there.
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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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If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as ‘new.’
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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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I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There’s no way I can control him. I wouldn’t stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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When you’re building a business, you’re either all in, or you’re not.
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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.
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The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
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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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I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
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If you’re having fun, you wind up innovating.
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Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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I don’t invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don’t have charisma.
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