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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.

Barbara Corcoran

You can’t study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.
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Entrepreneur Sometimes Study
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 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.
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Kids Reading School
Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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Motivational People Sorry
Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
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Chance Ending Happy Take
I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.
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Beautiful Entrepreneur Hate
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
The wheels of justice – they’re square wheels.
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Justice Squares Wheels
When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.
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Chemistry Employee Great
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
Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
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Employee Motivate Employees
I like to wake up and just feel gratitude. Gratitude for waking up, for my health, for my kids, for my family. A lot of times in the evening, I’ll write down what my goals are for the next day; When I wake up, I look at that list again. I meditate.
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Gratitude Kids Writing
I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn’t like that very much.
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Boss Dog Jobs
The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to keep your name in the press.
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Clever Names Way
Don’t teach talent that isn’t there.
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Lesson Talent Teach
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.
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Able Real Stars
The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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Advertising Important Publicity
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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Break Even Long Two
When you’re building a business, you’re either all in, or you’re not.
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Building Business Success Work
You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you’re moving out. But it’s demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don’t have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.
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Home Moving Rip
You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
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Limelight Share Stealing
So many people are good at starts and not so good at finishing.
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Finish Good People Start
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.’
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Differences Real Sorry
Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it.
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Feels Should Way
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
Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they’ll determine 80 percent of your success.
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Determine People Percent
When you’re in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it’s a huge advantage.
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Advantage Gimmicks Huge

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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