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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.
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 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.
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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 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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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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Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.
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Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
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When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.
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I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
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Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must!
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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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Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it's there.
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In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
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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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If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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Home staging used to be optional. Today, it's a necessity in selling a house.
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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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