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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

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Depression Guilt Procrastination Put Stop
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
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
I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Beautiful Entrepreneur Hate
Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Creativity Innovation Running
Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Building Marketing Mom
I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it’s a phantom chase.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Balance Thinking Years
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn’t want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn’t want a boss.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Boss Business Jobs Two
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
All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.
BARBARA CORCORAN

All Best Past Rejected
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.’
BARBARA CORCORAN

Differences Real Sorry
Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Instinct Motivational Natural Underestimate
If you want to have a creative culture, you can’t get it by reading books. You get it by example.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Book Creative Reading
Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Asks Assuming Plenty
In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Entrepreneur Motivational Waiting
If someone doesn’t fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you’re holding them back from excelling elsewhere.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Company Fit Obligation

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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