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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

Barbara Corcoran

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Barbara Corcoran
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: March 10
Businessperson
Businesswoman
Journalist
Television Producer
Edgewater
New Jersey
Barbara Ann Corcoran
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Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.
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Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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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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Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
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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 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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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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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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My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
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The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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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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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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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
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If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately...it's everything.
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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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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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