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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.

Barbara Corcoran

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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Color Motivational Organization
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Kids Reading School
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Home War Winning
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
My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Amazing Kids Mother Woman
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
I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Beautiful Entrepreneur Hate
Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Motivational People Sorry
I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Family Investment Thinking
When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Chemistry Employee Great
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
Empathy for the people you’re working with and being aware of their needs…that’s the “big kahuna” in managing people.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Empathy Needs People
Home staging used to be optional. Today, it’s a necessity in selling a house.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Home House Today
You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you’re moving out. But it’s demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don’t have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Home Moving Rip
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
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Company Fit Obligation

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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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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