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 CORCORANI don’t invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don’t have charisma.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
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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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Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they’re interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
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Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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Don’t teach talent that isn’t there.
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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.
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The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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If someone doesn’t fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you’re holding them back from excelling elsewhere.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.
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So many people are good at starts and not so good at finishing.
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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!
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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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Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your “not to do” list. Post the list where you’ll see it.
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