My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There’s no way I can control him. I wouldn’t stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

— Barbara Corcoran
Strong

Barbara Corcoran Quotes

People imitate their leader. Lead by example.

— Barbara Corcoran
Friday for Work Small Business

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

— Barbara Corcoran

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.

— Barbara Corcoran

If you want to be noticed, dress the part.

— Barbara Corcoran

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

— Barbara Corcoran

No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.

— Barbara Corcoran

You can’t study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.

— Barbara Corcoran

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.

— Barbara Corcoran
Reading

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.

— Barbara Corcoran

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.

— Barbara Corcoran

Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They’re almost like tangent lines – those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.

— Barbara Corcoran

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.

— Barbara Corcoran

Failure is my specialty.

— Barbara Corcoran

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.

— Barbara Corcoran

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

— Barbara Corcoran

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.

— Barbara Corcoran

Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

— Barbara Corcoran

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.

— Barbara Corcoran

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.

— Barbara Corcoran

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

— Barbara Corcoran
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