I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
BARBARA CORCORANPeople want to do business with someone they like. If people like you, they’re going to want to do business with you. And if they don’t you’re going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.
More Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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The worst that could happen is I lose my company and go back to being a waitress. I don’t think money’s a great aspiration for a lot of people that succeed. They they have other motivations that turn them on. And money was not one of mine.
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Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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Failure is my specialty.
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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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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
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The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it’s what goes on inside your own head
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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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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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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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Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
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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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I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.
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Home staging used to be optional. Today, it’s a necessity in selling a house.
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