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 CORCORANIf 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.’
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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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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You can’t study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.
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Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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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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Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
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Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there.
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The wheels of justice – they’re square wheels.
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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn’t want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn’t want a boss.
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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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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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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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I 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.
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