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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
Businessperson
Businesswoman
Journalist
Television Producer
Edgewater
New Jersey
Barbara Ann Corcoran
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Business
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Cocky

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A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
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The difference between the real winners is how long they take to feel sorry for themselves. My winners feel it... but they come back up and say 'hit me again.'
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Don't be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It's when you're uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.
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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 had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
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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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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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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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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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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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My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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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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The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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I've seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.
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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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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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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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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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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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