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.
BARBARA CORCORANBuy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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Failure is my specialty.
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The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.
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My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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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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I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of ‘curb appeal.’
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A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.
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I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you’re quoted in the ‘Wall Street Journal,’ the ‘New York Times,’ constantly as the expert in the business people assume you’re a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
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I’m never in control of my time during the workday.
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Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.
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Don’t teach talent that isn’t there.
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Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it.
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