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When you’re in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it’s a huge advantage.

Barbara Corcoran

Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Instinct Motivational Natural Underestimate
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Country Journal Running Street Wall
The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it… but they come back up and say ‘hit me again.’
BARBARA CORCORAN

Differences Real Sorry
Failure is my specialty.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Failure Motivational Specialty
Become better at firing than hiring – it’s crucial for building a business.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Building Crucial Hiring
I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Family Investment Thinking
No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Cost Interest Loan
When you’re building a business, you’re either all in, or you’re not.
BARBARA CORCORAN

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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Motivation People Thinking
Insecurity is a wonderful motivator.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Insecurity Motivator Wonderful
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Average Media Past
Don’t be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It’s when you’re uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Business Jobs Learning
It’s rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn’t find that was true of my top super stars either.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Able Real Stars
I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Agents Real Seven
Don’t teach talent that isn’t there.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Lesson Talent Teach
In New York City, the meek don’t inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
BARBARA CORCORAN

City Country Earth Mouth

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