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Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they’ll determine 80 percent of your success.

Barbara Corcoran

Empathy for the people you’re working with and being aware of their needs…that’s the “big kahuna” in managing people.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Empathy Needs People
The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don’t build ‘wiggle room’ into the asking price. There’s a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Home War Winning
The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Billions Dollars Stories
When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Chemistry Employee Great
No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Cost Interest Loan
Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Asks Assuming Plenty
Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
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Dollars Sharks Tales
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Differences Ideas Outside Play
Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your “not to do” list. Post the list where you’ll see it.
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Effort Labels Past
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
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Able Real Stars
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.’
BARBARA CORCORAN

Four House Two
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
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Kids Motivational Real
Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Employee Motivate Employees
I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Giving Jobs Parent

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