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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

My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There’s no way I can control him. I wouldn’t stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Home Husband Strong
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

Country Journal Running Street Wall
I don’t invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don’t have charisma.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Charisma Entrepreneur
If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately…it’s everything.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Fire Ideas Moving
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
Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Flavor Leadership Team Two
I’ve seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Innovation Money More Simple
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
If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you’ll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!
BARBARA CORCORAN

Forever Gut Way
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
Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Motivational People Sorry
People want to do business with someone they like. If people like you, they’re going to want to do business with you. And if they don’t you’re going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Motivational Overcome People
If you want to be noticed, dress the part.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Dress Motivational Want
Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Maximizing Minimizing Negative
I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Believe Thinking Weakness
The worst that could happen is I lose my company and go back to being a waitress. I don’t think money’s a great aspiration for a lot of people that succeed. They they have other motivations that turn them on. And money was not one of mine.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Motivation People Thinking

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.

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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.

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