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Barbara Corcoran

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
The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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Advertising Important Publicity
Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.
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Flavor Leadership Team Two
I don’t invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don’t have charisma.
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Charisma Entrepreneur
Home staging used to be optional. Today, it’s a necessity in selling a house.
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Home House Today
Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
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Beauty Contest Eight Great Lighting
I hadn’t learned to read by third grade, which wasn’t unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn’t see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn’t the least bit bothered – until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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Kids Reading School
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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Country Journal Running Street Wall
Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
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Chance Ending Happy Take
A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.
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Color Motivational Organization
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
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
If someone doesn’t fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you’re holding them back from excelling elsewhere.
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Company Fit Obligation
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.
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Bird Flying Tiny
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
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
Confidence is overrated. It’s when we’re uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.
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Answers Grows Uncomfortable
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
I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.
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Death Love Myself Names Tickle
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
The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to keep your name in the press.
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Clever Names Way
I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.
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Beautiful Entrepreneur Hate
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
Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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Maximizing Minimizing Negative
Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
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Building Crucial Hiring
Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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Discovery Schemes

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