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 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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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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Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It’s about making them happy.
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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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The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it… but they come back up and say ‘hit me again.’
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Great sales people [don’t] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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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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I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
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You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
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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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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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Confidence is overrated. It’s when we’re uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.
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Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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Failure is my specialty.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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