Barbara Corcoran Quotes

• In New York City, the meek don’t inherit the earth. The big mouth does.

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• In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

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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 you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.

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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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• If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.

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• I’ve been in real estate for my whole life, I’ve been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I’m never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That’s good enough.

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

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

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

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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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• 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 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 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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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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