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That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.

Barbara Corcoran

The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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Advertising Important Publicity
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
If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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Amount House Percent
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.
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Book People Smart
Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
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Employee Motivate Employees
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.
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Cost Interest Loan
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.
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Believe Inspirational Mother
Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.
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Creativity Innovation Running
Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
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Asks Assuming Plenty
That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.
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Fields Motivational Succeed
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.
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Home Husband Strong
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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All Best Past Rejected
Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
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Chance Ending Happy Take
When you feel stuck and can’t seem to move ahead, always remember that you don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going!
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Moving Remember Stuck
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Best People Time Wheel
A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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Estates Funny Real
People want to do business with someone they like. If people like you, they’re going to want to do business with you. And if they don’t you’re going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.
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Motivational Overcome People
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.
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Differences Ideas Outside Play
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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Entrepreneur Hard Mom Times
I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.
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Death Love Myself Names Tickle
The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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Inspiring Sorry Strong Women
Failure is my specialty.
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Failure Motivational Specialty
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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Kids Motivational Real
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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Eight Home Shoes
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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Boss Business Jobs Two
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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Attitude Death Eaters People
If you want to have a creative culture, you can’t get it by reading books. You get it by example.
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Book Creative Reading

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