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 CORCORANAlways choose attitude over experience. Always.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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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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If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately…it’s everything.
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The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it’s a phantom chase.
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Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
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You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
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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.
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The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head
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Home staging used to be optional. Today, it’s a necessity in selling a house.
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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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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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You can’t study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.
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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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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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I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% – still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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