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I hadn’t learned to read by third grade, which wasn’t unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn’t see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn’t the least bit bothered – until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

Barbara Corcoran

I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don’t jump on something right away, it’s like a bird flying by-it flies off.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Bird Flying Tiny
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Heart Home Thinking
I hadn’t learned to read by third grade, which wasn’t unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn’t see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn’t the least bit bothered – until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
BARBARA CORCORAN

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

Depression Guilt Procrastination Put Stop
Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Maximizing Minimizing Negative
When you’re building a business, you’re either all in, or you’re not.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Building Business Success Work
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Beauty Contest Eight Great Lighting
Don’t be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It’s when you’re uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Business Jobs Learning
All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.
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All Best Past Rejected
Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Dollars Sharks Tales
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Book People Smart
In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Entrepreneur Motivational Waiting
I’ve never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I was playing outside.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Differences Ideas Outside Play
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Feminine Husband Wife
If you want to be noticed, dress the part.
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Dress Motivational Want
I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn’t like that very much.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Boss Dog Jobs

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