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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There’s no way I can control him. I wouldn’t stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

Barbara Corcoran

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Dollars Sharks Tales
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn’t want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn’t want a boss.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Boss Business Jobs Two
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Home War Winning
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Differences Record
Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They’re almost like tangent lines – those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Kids Motivational Real
The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Inspiring Sorry Strong Women
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
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Feminine Husband Wife
The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Advertising Important Publicity
Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Asks Assuming Plenty
Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Employee Motivate Employees
Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Maximizing Minimizing Negative
If you’re having fun, you wind up innovating.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Fun Having Fun Wind
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
I’m never in control of my time during the workday.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Control During never Time Workday
Insecurity is a wonderful motivator.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Insecurity Motivator Wonderful

My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There’s no way I can control him. I wouldn’t stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There’s no way I can control him. I wouldn’t stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

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