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The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head

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
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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 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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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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The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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