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The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head

Barbara Corcoran

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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Fire Ideas Moving
That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.
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Fields Motivational Succeed
Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
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Building Crucial Hiring
People want to do business with someone they like. If people like you, they’re going to want to do business with you. And if they don’t you’re going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.
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Motivational Overcome People
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
I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
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Family Investment Thinking
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
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.
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Book People Smart
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
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
A complainer is like a Death Eater because there’s a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Attitude Death Eaters People
Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it.
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Feels Should Way
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.
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Kids Reading School
You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
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Limelight Share Stealing
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
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

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