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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.

Barbara Corcoran

Empathy for the people you’re working with and being aware of their needs…that’s the “big kahuna” in managing people.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Empathy Needs People
Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Asks Assuming Plenty
I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% – still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Entrepreneur Hard Mom Times
My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Amazing Kids Mother Woman
That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Fields Motivational Succeed
Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Motivational People Sorry
The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Inspiring Sorry Strong Women
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Best People Time Wheel
The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Billions Dollars Stories
Insecurity is a wonderful motivator.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Insecurity Motivator Wonderful
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 CORCORAN

Average Media Past
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Motivation People Thinking
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.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Heart Home Thinking
Don’t get cocky just because you’ve had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you’ve earned it.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Cocky Loses Running
I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it’s a phantom chase.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Balance Thinking Years
When you’re a big money earner and your husband isn’t, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or ‘Mrs. Higgins.
BARBARA CORCORAN

Feminine Husband Wife

I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.

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