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Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.
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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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 joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
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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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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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If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you'll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!
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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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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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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 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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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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Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.
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I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don't jump on something right away, it's like a bird flying by-it flies off.
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If you've got the money, you need people to make money with your money. And if you have the talent, you can always merchandise your talent to someone who's got the money and make money. There's two pieces to it: talent and money.
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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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Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It's about making them happy.
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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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My best successes came on the heels of failures.
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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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Don't teach talent that isn't there.
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