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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.
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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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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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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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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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.
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So many people are good at starts and not so good at finishing.
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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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Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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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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My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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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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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 you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.
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Don't teach talent that isn't there.
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You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.
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Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
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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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Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It's about making them happy.
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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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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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