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Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.

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
People
Sales
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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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Empathy for the people you're working with and being aware of their needs...that's the big kahuna in managing people.
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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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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 you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately...it's everything.
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Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it.
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If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it 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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People imitate their leader. Lead by example.
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My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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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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Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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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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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.
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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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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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