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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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Edgewater
New Jersey
Barbara Ann Corcoran
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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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Confidence is overrated. It's when we're uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.
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Don't teach talent that isn't there.
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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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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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The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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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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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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In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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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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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
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Empathy for the people you're working with and being aware of their needs...that's the big kahuna in managing people.
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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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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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