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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.'

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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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 husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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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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Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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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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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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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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If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
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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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Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.
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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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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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You can't study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.
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My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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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 difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
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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 story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
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