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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

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

Death Love Myself Names Tickle
The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Advertising Important Publicity
The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it… but they come back up and say ‘hit me again.’
BARBARA CORCORAN

Differences Real Sorry
Home staging used to be optional. Today, it’s a necessity in selling a house.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Home House Today
Everybody thinks that they’re going to time the market, they’re going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Bottom Matter Thinking
Insecurity is a wonderful motivator.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Insecurity Motivator Wonderful
If you want to have a creative culture, you can’t get it by reading books. You get it by example.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Book Creative Reading
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Feminine Husband Wife
Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I’m not saying that’s the only calling card, but it’s a whole crayon box.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Calling Cards Sex
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
Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Depression Guilt Procrastination Put Stop
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
Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your “not to do” list. Post the list where you’ll see it.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Effort Labels Past
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Average Media Past
The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Inspiring Sorry Strong Women
You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
BARBARA CORCORAN

Limelight Share Stealing

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.

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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.

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