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I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

Barbara Corcoran

Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
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Asks Assuming Plenty
Don’t get cocky just because you’ve had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you’ve earned it.
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Cocky Loses Running
Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there.
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Believe Motivational Opportunity
I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
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Family Investment Thinking
Refinancing doesn’t reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.
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Achieve Debt Want
Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
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Heart Home Thinking
I’ve never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I was playing outside.
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Differences Ideas Outside Play
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
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
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.
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Kids Motivational Real
If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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Amount House Percent
If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as ‘new.’
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Four House Two
When you feel stuck and can’t seem to move ahead, always remember that you don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going!
BARBARA CORCORAN

Moving Remember Stuck
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.
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Business Jobs Learning
Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
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Dollars Sharks Tales
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

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