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Barbara Corcoran

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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Book Creative Reading
The wheels of justice – they’re square wheels.
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Justice Squares Wheels
Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
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Dollars Sharks Tales
So many people are good at starts and not so good at finishing.
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Finish Good People Start
I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it’s a phantom chase.
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Balance Thinking Years
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
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
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 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.
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Average Media Past
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
I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.
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Beautiful Entrepreneur Hate
In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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Entrepreneur Motivational Waiting
I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
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Family Investment Thinking
I’ve seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.
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Innovation Money More Simple
My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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Empowering Inspirational Strong Women
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
The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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Advertising Important Publicity
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
I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
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Believe Thinking Weakness
I’m never in control of my time during the workday.
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Control During never Time Workday
No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.
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Cost Interest Loan
When you’re in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it’s a huge advantage.
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Advantage Gimmicks Huge
Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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Discovery Schemes
Always choose attitude over experience. Always.
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Attitude Choices Motivational
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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Home Husband Strong
Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
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Beauty Contest Eight Great Lighting
Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
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Chance Ending Happy Take

A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.

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