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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.

Barbara Corcoran

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Barbara Corcoran
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: March 10
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Edgewater
New Jersey
Barbara Ann Corcoran
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People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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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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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 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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My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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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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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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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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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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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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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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If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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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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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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You steal the limelight, you steal the market share
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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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