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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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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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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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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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Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It's about making them happy.
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I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don't jump on something right away, it's like a bird flying by-it flies off.
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You can't study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.
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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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Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
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If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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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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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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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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In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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Home staging used to be optional. Today, it's a necessity in selling a house.
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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 you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately...it's everything.
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The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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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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