Barbara Corcoran Quotes:– Barbara Corcoran (born March 10, 1949) is an American businesswoman, investor, syndicated columnist, and television personality. She founded The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001 and shortly thereafter exited the company.
Inspirational Barbara Corcoran Quotes
“I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.”
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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.”
Barbara Corcoran
“My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, but she also 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.”
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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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“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.”
Barbara Corcoran
“Refinancing doesn’t reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.”
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“In New York City, the meek don’t inherit the earth. The big mouth does.”
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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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“People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them – I’m not so sure they could see the potential in me.”
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35+ Powerful Barbara Corcoran Quotes
“When you’re a big money earner and your husband isn’t, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, second fiddle, or ‘Mrs. Higgins.'”
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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.”
Barbara Corcoran
“The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.”
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“Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct?”
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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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“A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.”
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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 superstars either.”
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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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Famous Quotes by Barbara Corcoran
“Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career because I was in a man’s world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.”
Barbara Corcoran
“I’m never in control of my time during the workday.”
Barbara Corcoran
“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.”
Barbara Corcoran
“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
“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
“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 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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Best Quotes on Barbara Corcoran
“If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.”
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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.”
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
“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
“I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as a parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.”
Barbara Corcoran
“My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?”
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Top 10 Quotes by Barbara Corcoran
“The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.”
Barbara Corcoran
“If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.”
Barbara Corcoran
“Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?”
Barbara Corcoran
“I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.”
Barbara Corcoran
“I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it’s a phantom chase.”
Barbara Corcoran
“Especially if you’re over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.”
Barbara Corcoran
“No one tells salesmen what they can and can’t do.”
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
“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
“In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.”
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