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People 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.

Barbara Corcoran

When you’re in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it’s a huge advantage.
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Advantage Gimmicks Huge
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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Feels Should Way
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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Country Journal Running Street Wall
I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it’s a phantom chase.
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Balance Thinking Years
If you’ve got the money, you need people to make money with your money. And if you have the talent, you can always merchandise your talent to someone who’s got the money and make money. There’s two pieces to it: talent and money.
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Making Money People Talent
People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
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Example Leader People
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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Eight Home Winning
Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.
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Creativity Innovation Running
Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.
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Discovery Schemes
The wheels of justice – they’re square wheels.
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Justice Squares Wheels
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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Average Media Past
When you’re building a business, you’re either all in, or you’re not.
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Building Business Success Work
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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Book Creative Reading
Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must!
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Estates Home Real
Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there.
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Believe Motivational Opportunity
That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.
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Fields Motivational Succeed
Buy 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.
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Heart Home Thinking
Don’t be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It’s when you’re uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.
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Business Jobs Learning
The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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Advertising Important Publicity
Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?
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Break Even Long Two
I’m never in control of my time during the workday.
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Control During never Time Workday
Always choose attitude over experience. Always.
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Attitude Choices Motivational
I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.
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Family Investment Thinking
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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Believe Inspirational Mother
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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Feminine Husband Wife
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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Boss Business Jobs Two
All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.
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All Best Past Rejected

People 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.

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People 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.

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