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 CORCORANIf you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately…it’s everything.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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You can’t study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.
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If you’ve got the money, you need people to make money with your money. And if you have the talent, you can always merchandise your talent to someone who’s got the money and make money. There’s two pieces to it: talent and money.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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Don’t be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It’s when you’re uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.
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The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don’t build ‘wiggle room’ into the asking price. There’s a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
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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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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there.
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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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Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.
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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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Home staging used to be optional. Today, it’s a necessity in selling a house.
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Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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Don’t get cocky just because you’ve had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you’ve earned it.
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