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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

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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Feminine Husband Wife
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
You can’t study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.
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Entrepreneur Sometimes Study
You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
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Limelight Share Stealing
Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
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Dollars Sharks Tales
When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.
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Chemistry Employee Great
Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
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Employee Motivate Employees
Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must!
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Estates Home Real
When you’re in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it’s a huge advantage.
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Advantage Gimmicks Huge
Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They’re almost like tangent lines – those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
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Kids Motivational Real
Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
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Asks Assuming Plenty
The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head
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Business Entrepreneur Thinking
I’m never in control of my time during the workday.
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Control During never Time Workday
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
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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Home War Winning
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.
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Color Motivational Organization
If you’re having fun, you wind up innovating.
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Fun Having Fun Wind
Don’t teach talent that isn’t there.
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Lesson Talent Teach
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
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.
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Company Fit Obligation
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!
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Forever Gut Way
I’ve seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.
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Innovation Money More Simple
I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
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Believe Thinking Weakness
In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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Entrepreneur Motivational Waiting
Everybody thinks that they’re going to time the market, they’re going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
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Bottom Matter Thinking
It’s rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn’t find that was true of my top super stars either.
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Able Real Stars
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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Cocky Loses Running

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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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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