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The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
Barbara Corcoran
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Barbara Corcoran
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: March 10
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Edgewater
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Barbara Ann Corcoran
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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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Home staging used to be optional. Today, it's a necessity in selling a house.
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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 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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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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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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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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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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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 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 biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head
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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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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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When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.
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Don't teach talent that isn't there.
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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 best successes came on the heels of failures.
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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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People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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