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Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
Barbara Corcoran
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Barbara Corcoran
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: March 10
Businessperson
Businesswoman
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Television Producer
Edgewater
New Jersey
Barbara Ann Corcoran
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If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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Confidence is overrated. It's when we're uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.
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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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Don't get cocky just because you've had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you've earned it.
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When you feel stuck and can't seem to move ahead, always remember that you don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going!
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Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
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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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I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
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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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The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
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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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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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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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Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
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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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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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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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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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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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