Barbara Corcoran is an American businesswoman, investor, syndicated columnist, and television personality. She is also an original “shark” investor in ABC’s Shark Tank show. On this show, she has made 53 deals. She founded The Corcoran Group which is a real estate brokerage company, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001.
Here are some Motivational Quotes by Barbara Corcoran to find some motivation for being successful in your life.
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Barbara Corcoran Quotes
1. “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
2. “I love myself. Anything that has my name I’m tickled to death.” ― Barbara Corcoran
3. “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.” ― Barbara Corcoran
4. “I’m never in control of my time during the workday.” ― Barbara Corcoran
5. “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
6. “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
Barbara Corcoran Quotes for being successful
7. “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?” ― Barbara Corcoran
8. “I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.” ― Barbara Corcoran
9. “The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life – in a good way.” ― Barbara Corcoran
10. “The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.” ― Barbara Corcoran
11. “Whatever you got you to 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
Barbara Corcoran Quotes for entrepreneurship motivation
12. “In business, you’re the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.” ― Barbara Corcoran
13. “The joy is in getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you’re in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that… don’t miss it.” ― Barbara Corcoran
14. “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
15. “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.” ― Barbara Corcoran
16. “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
17. “No one tells salesmen what they can and can’t do.” ― Barbara Corcoran
Barbara Corcoran Quotes for real estate business
18. “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
19. “A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.” ― Barbara Corcoran
20. “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
21. “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.” ― Barbara Corcoran
22. “I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.” ― Barbara Corcoran
23. “The most influential factor in selling a home is always a 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
24. “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.” ― Barbara Corcoran
25. “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.’” ― Barbara Corcoran
26. “What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.” ― Barbara Corcoran
27. “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
Barbara Corcoran Quotes for money & investment
28. “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.” ― Barbara Corcoran
29. “You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you’re moving out. But it’s demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don’t have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.” ― Barbara Corcoran
30. “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
31. “Refinancing doesn’t reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.” ― Barbara Corcoran
32. “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, or second fiddle, or ‘Mrs. Higgins.’” ― Barbara Corcoran
33. “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
Life Motivation Quotes by Barbara Corcoran
34. “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
35. “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
36. “Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct?” ― Barbara Corcoran
37. “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.” ― Barbara Corcoran
38. “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
39. “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
40. “If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.” ― Barbara Corcoran
41. “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
42. “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 to have fun.” ― Barbara Corcoran
43. “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.” ― Barbara Corcoran
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