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 CORCORANIf you want to have a creative culture, you can’t get it by reading books. You get it by example.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
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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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If you’re having fun, you wind up innovating.
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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.
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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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A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of ‘curb appeal.’
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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.
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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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I’ve seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.
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I like to wake up and just feel gratitude. Gratitude for waking up, for my health, for my kids, for my family. A lot of times in the evening, I’ll write down what my goals are for the next day; When I wake up, I look at that list again. I meditate.
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Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
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My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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Home staging used to be optional. Today, it’s a necessity in selling a house.
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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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Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must!
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