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Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

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
Stop
Postponement
Postponing
Breeds
Procrastination
Depression
Guilt
Putting
Failure

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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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My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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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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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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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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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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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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When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.
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The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head
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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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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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