The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head
BARBARA CORCORANDon’t get cocky just because you’ve had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you’ve earned it.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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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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Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.
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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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My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.
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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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If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you’ll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!
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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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Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.
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Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
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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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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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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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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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