Barbara Quotes

Always present yourself as a woman who expects to succeed.

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.

Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.

There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship.There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country.

I use to believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Tom Cruise too.

It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.

To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

My worst expectations never happened.

George is the best little dishwasher in Texas.

To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.'

I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

So many people are good at starts and not so good at finishing.

Become better at firing than hiring - it's crucial for building a business.

Money is not the only thing that motivates employees. It's about making them happy.

If you want to be noticed, dress the part.

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.

If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere.

I'm never in control of my time during the workday.

I think of my business and investments as extension of my family.

That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.

Failure is my specialty.

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.

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.'

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.'

I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.

I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

Changing Myrtle Beach? It makes me feel very good ... If it's changing, it's changing for the positive.

I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.

Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.

If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.

To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee is already home, trapped like a rat in a drainpipe.

I blame all the craziness of people buying houses, re-doing them and selling them, on these programs on television where they are redoing your homes and kitchens.

[On her mother, who died when Hutton was 4:] I hardly remember her, but I have missed her all my life.

A prayer is directed by a supplicant toward someone/something powerful who can grant a favor, and by putting daughters in that position, you place them in the position of power.

A lot of people telling the same story from their various points of view.

We're always hardest on our own work, I guess.