Especially if you’re over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
BARBARA CORCORANIf 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.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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Everybody thinks that they’re going to time the market, they’re going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
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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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Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they’ll determine 80 percent of your success.
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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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I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
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If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as ‘new.’
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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 have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
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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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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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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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The wheels of justice – they’re square wheels.
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I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
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Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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My mother’s genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours.
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