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So many people are good at starts and not so good at finishing.

Barbara Corcoran

A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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Estates Funny Real
Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I’m not saying that’s the only calling card, but it’s a whole crayon box.
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Calling Cards Sex
The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head
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Business Entrepreneur Thinking
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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Eight Home Shoes
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.
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Book People Smart
If you’re having fun, you wind up innovating.
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Fun Having Fun Wind
The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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Inspiring Sorry Strong Women
Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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Motivational People Sorry
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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Boss Business Jobs Two
I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
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Agents Real Seven
The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don’t build ‘wiggle room’ into the asking price. There’s a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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Home War Winning
Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.
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Asks Assuming Plenty
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 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 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

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