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Insecurity is a wonderful motivator.

Barbara Corcoran

Empathy for the people you’re working with and being aware of their needs…that’s the “big kahuna” in managing people.
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Empathy Needs People
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Best People Time Wheel
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 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.
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Boss Dog Jobs
The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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Advertising Important Publicity
A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of ‘curb appeal.’
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Eight Home Winning
Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
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Chance Ending Happy Take
Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your “not to do” list. Post the list where you’ll see it.
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Effort Labels Past
Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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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.
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Book Creative Reading
Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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Discovery Schemes
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you’re quoted in the ‘Wall Street Journal,’ the ‘New York Times,’ constantly as the expert in the business people assume you’re a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
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Country Journal Running Street Wall
Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.
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Creativity Innovation Running
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
I like to wake up and just feel gratitude. Gratitude for waking up, for my health, for my kids, for my family. A lot of times in the evening, I’ll write down what my goals are for the next day; When I wake up, I look at that list again. I meditate.
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Gratitude Kids Writing
Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
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Employee Motivate Employees
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
I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
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Agents Real Seven
People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
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Example Leader People
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
When you’re building a business, you’re either all in, or you’re not.
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Building Business Success Work
The worst that could happen is I lose my company and go back to being a waitress. I don’t think money’s a great aspiration for a lot of people that succeed. They they have other motivations that turn them on. And money was not one of mine.
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Motivation People Thinking
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.
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Believe Inspirational Mother
Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must!
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Estates Home Real
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.
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Beauty Contest Eight Great Lighting
My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
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Amazing Kids Mother Woman
Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there.
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Believe Motivational Opportunity

Insecurity is a wonderful motivator.

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