Barbara Corcoran Quotes

• Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

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• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.

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• A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

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• Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

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• I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you’re quoted in the ‘Wall Street Journal,’ the ‘New York Times,’ constantly as the expert in the business people assume you’re a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.

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• Especially if you’re over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

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

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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.

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• I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

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• I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.

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• I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

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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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• I hadn’t learned to read by third grade, which wasn’t unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn’t see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn’t the least bit bothered – until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

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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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• 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 have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

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Barbara Corcoran (50)

Birth:	10th March, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businesswoman

About

Barbara Ann Corcoran is an American businesswoman, investor, speaker, business consultant, syndicated columnist, author, and television personality. As a television personality, she is a Shark investor on ABC's Shark Tank. She graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas College with a degree in education in 1971. After graduation, she taught school for a year, but soon moved on working various jobs including a side job renting apartments in New York City. She wanted to be her own boss, and in 1973 co-founded a real estate business called The Corcoran Group with her wealthy boyfriend, who fronted a $1000 loan. In the mid-1970s she also began publishing The Corcoran Report on real estate data trends in New York City. In 2001, Corcoran sold her business to the giant NRT Incorporated for $66 million.

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