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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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Edgewater
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Barbara Ann Corcoran
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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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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 a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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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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I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
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Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
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My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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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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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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You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
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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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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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Home staging used to be optional. Today, it's a necessity in selling a house.
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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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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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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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