Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
BARBARA CORCORANI 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.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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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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You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
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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.
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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?
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My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there.
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Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
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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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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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Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They’re almost like tangent lines – those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
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Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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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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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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Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
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