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

Barbara Corcoran

Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Feels Should Way
If you’re having fun, you wind up innovating.
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Fun Having Fun Wind
I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
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Believe Thinking Weakness
Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
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Asks Assuming Plenty
If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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Differences Record
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 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
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
You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
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Limelight Share Stealing
Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
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Building Marketing Mom
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
Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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Discovery Schemes
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
People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
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Example Leader People
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

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