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Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

Barbara Corcoran

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.
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Amazing Kids Mother Woman
The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
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Billions Dollars Stories
I don’t invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don’t have charisma.
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Charisma Entrepreneur
If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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Amount House Percent
The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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Inspiring Sorry Strong Women
Failure is my specialty.
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Failure Motivational Specialty
Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it.
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Feels Should Way
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
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
If you’re having fun, you wind up innovating.
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Fun Having Fun Wind
In New York City, the meek don’t inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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City Country Earth Mouth
All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.
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All Best Past Rejected
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’m never in control of my time during the workday.
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Control During never Time Workday
In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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Entrepreneur Motivational Waiting
Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
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Break Even Long Two
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
Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
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Asks Assuming Plenty
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
Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
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Dollars Sharks Tales
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
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.
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Bottom Matter Thinking
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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Cocky Loses Running
You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
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Limelight Share Stealing
That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.
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Fields Motivational Succeed
Empathy for the people you’re working with and being aware of their needs…that’s the “big kahuna” in managing people.
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Empathy Needs People
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.
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Believe Inspirational Mother

Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

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