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If you want to have a creative culture, you can’t get it by reading books. You get it by example.

Barbara Corcoran

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.
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Creativity Innovation Running
Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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Maximizing Minimizing Negative
People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
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Example Leader People
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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Heart Home Thinking
The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
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Billions Dollars Stories
Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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Discovery Schemes
So many people are good at starts and not so good at finishing.
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Finish Good People Start
Refinancing doesn’t reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.
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Achieve Debt Want
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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Entrepreneur Hard Mom Times
Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your “not to do” list. Post the list where you’ll see it.
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Effort Labels Past
I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.
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Death Love Myself Names Tickle
Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they’re interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
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Eight Home Shoes
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.
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Book People Smart
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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Differences Real Sorry
If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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Amount House Percent
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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Hobbies House Men

If you want to have a creative culture, you can’t get it by reading books. You get it by example.

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