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The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.

Barbara Corcoran

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.’
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Four House Two
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.
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Motivation People Thinking
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 sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.
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Average Media Past
When you’re building a business, you’re either all in, or you’re not.
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Building Business Success Work
I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
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Agents Real Seven
Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
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Depression Guilt Procrastination Put Stop
Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
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Heart Home Thinking
If you want to be noticed, dress the part.
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Dress Motivational Want
Failure is my specialty.
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Failure Motivational Specialty
The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head
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Business Entrepreneur Thinking
I don’t invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don’t have charisma.
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Charisma Entrepreneur
A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of ‘curb appeal.’
BARBARA CORCORAN

Eight Home Winning
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.
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Hobbies House Men
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
I’m never in control of my time during the workday.
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Control During never Time Workday
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
Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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Motivational People Sorry
When you’re a big money earner and your husband isn’t, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or ‘Mrs. Higgins.
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Feminine Husband Wife
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Best People Time Wheel
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’ve seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.
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Innovation Money More Simple
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
Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
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Building Marketing Mom
Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
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Dollars Sharks Tales
I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
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Believe Thinking Weakness
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

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