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I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.

Barbara Corcoran

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
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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Building Marketing Mom
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
I’ve seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.
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Innovation Money More Simple
The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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Advertising Important Publicity
Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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Instinct Motivational Natural Underestimate
Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.
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Creativity Innovation Running
People want to do business with someone they like. If people like you, they’re going to want to do business with you. And if they don’t you’re going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.
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Motivational Overcome People
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
Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
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Chance Ending Happy Take
Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
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Building Crucial Hiring
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
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
Always choose attitude over experience. Always.
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Attitude Choices Motivational
If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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Amount House Percent
Don’t get cocky just because you’ve had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you’ve earned it.
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Cocky Loses Running
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
I’ve never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I was playing outside.
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Differences Ideas Outside Play
If someone doesn’t fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you’re holding them back from excelling elsewhere.
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Company Fit Obligation
Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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Motivational People Sorry
Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
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Asks Assuming Plenty
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 difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it… but they come back up and say ‘hit me again.’
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Differences Real Sorry
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
I don’t invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don’t have charisma.
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Charisma Entrepreneur
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

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