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People want to do business with someone they like. If people like you, they're going to want to do business with you. And if they don't you're going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.
Barbara Corcoran
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Barbara Corcoran
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: March 10
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Barbara Ann Corcoran
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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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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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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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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Confidence is overrated. It's when we're uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.
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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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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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Don't teach talent that isn't there.
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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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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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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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Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.
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Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must!
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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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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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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 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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If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere.
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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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Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
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