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

Barbara Corcoran

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
People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
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Example Leader People
If someone doesn’t fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you’re holding them back from excelling elsewhere.
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Company Fit Obligation
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
Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.
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Creativity Innovation Running
Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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Instinct Motivational Natural Underestimate
Take some time to sit down and figure out how your big rival is promoting their brand and plan something smarter and more creative for yours!
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Creative Down Rivals Smarter Something
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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Achieve Debt Want
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
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
Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there.
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Believe Motivational Opportunity
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.
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Feminine Husband Wife
If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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Amount House Percent
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
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.
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Entrepreneur Hard Mom Times

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