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My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

Barbara Corcoran

Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Feels Should Way
I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Death Love Myself Names Tickle
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
If you’re having fun, you wind up innovating.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Fun Having Fun Wind
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
Don’t get cocky just because you’ve had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you’ve earned it.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Cocky Loses Running
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
If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately…it’s everything.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Fire Ideas Moving
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
I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it’s a phantom chase.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Balance Thinking Years
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
In New York City, the meek don’t inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
BARBARA CORCORAN

City Country Earth Mouth
Refinancing doesn’t reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Achieve Debt Want
Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Maximizing Minimizing Negative
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
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

Forever Gut Way

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

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My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

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