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 CORCORANI 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.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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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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Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
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When you feel stuck and can’t seem to move ahead, always remember that you don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going!
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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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I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% – still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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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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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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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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Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they’ll determine 80 percent of your success.
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In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it… but they come back up and say ‘hit me again.’
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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.
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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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Insecurity is a wonderful motivator.
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If you want to be noticed, dress the part.
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