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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.
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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Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It's about making them happy.
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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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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 best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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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 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.
Barbara Corcoran
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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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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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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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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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.
Barbara Corcoran
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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The power of publicity is more important than advertising.
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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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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.
Barbara Corcoran
The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
Barbara Corcoran
The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head
Barbara Corcoran
Confidence is overrated. It's when we're uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.
Barbara Corcoran
Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
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