Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
BARBARA CORCORANShark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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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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I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.
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The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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If you want to have a creative culture, you can’t get it by reading books. You get it by example.
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I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.
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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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The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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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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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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That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.
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Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
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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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The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head
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If you’re having fun, you wind up innovating.
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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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The wheels of justice – they’re square wheels.
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If you want to be noticed, dress the part.
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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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Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
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You can’t study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.
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Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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Always choose attitude over experience. Always.
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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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