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The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

Barbara Corcoran

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
Failure is my specialty.
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Failure Motivational Specialty
Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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Discovery Schemes
Don’t get cocky just because you’ve had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you’ve earned it.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Cocky Loses Running
Confidence is overrated. It’s when we’re uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.
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Answers Grows Uncomfortable
Don’t teach talent that isn’t there.
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Lesson Talent Teach
The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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Advertising Important Publicity
Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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Motivational People Sorry
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Eight Home Shoes
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.
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Bird Flying Tiny
Always choose attitude over experience. Always.
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Attitude Choices Motivational
Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I’m not saying that’s the only calling card, but it’s a whole crayon box.
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Calling Cards Sex
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
If you’re having fun, you wind up innovating.
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Fun Having Fun Wind
If you’ve got the money, you need people to make money with your money. And if you have the talent, you can always merchandise your talent to someone who’s got the money and make money. There’s two pieces to it: talent and money.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Making Money People Talent
If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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Amount House Percent

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