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Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it's there.

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
Findings
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Motivational
Opportunity
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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.
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I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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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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The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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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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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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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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