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Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.

Barbara Corcoran

When you’re a big money earner and your husband isn’t, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or ‘Mrs. Higgins.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Feminine Husband Wife
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
Especially if you’re over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Mortgage Pay Retirement
Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Chance Ending Happy Take
Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
BARBARA CORCORAN

Break Even Long Two
The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head
BARBARA CORCORAN

Business Entrepreneur Thinking
Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Motivational People Sorry
If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
BARBARA CORCORAN

might People Winner
Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Discovery Schemes
Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your “not to do” list. Post the list where you’ll see it.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Effort Labels Past
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
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Making Money People Talent
The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to keep your name in the press.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Clever Names Way
I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don’t jump on something right away, it’s like a bird flying by-it flies off.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Bird Flying Tiny
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Motivation People Thinking
I like to wake up and just feel gratitude. Gratitude for waking up, for my health, for my kids, for my family. A lot of times in the evening, I’ll write down what my goals are for the next day; When I wake up, I look at that list again. I meditate.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Gratitude Kids Writing

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