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If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you’ll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!

Barbara Corcoran

If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Differences Record
The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head
BARBARA CORCORAN

Business Entrepreneur Thinking
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Book People Smart
Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Building Crucial Hiring
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
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
Confidence is overrated. It’s when we’re uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Answers Grows Uncomfortable
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Entrepreneur Hard Mom Times
My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There’s no way I can control him. I wouldn’t stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Home Husband Strong
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
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Hobbies House Men
My mother’s genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Believe Inspirational Mother
When you’re in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it’s a huge advantage.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Advantage Gimmicks Huge
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Boss Business Jobs Two
Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Chance Ending Happy Take
I don’t invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don’t have charisma.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Charisma Entrepreneur

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