Barbara Corcoran Quotes
108 Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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Jumping out the window will make you either an ass or a hero.
Barbara Corcoran
Sweep the corners and the whole house stays clean.
Barbara Corcoran
You have the right to be there.
Barbara Corcoran
You’ve got to bully a bully.
Barbara Corcoran
Dress the part.
Barbara Corcoran
Do your homework.
Barbara Corcoran
Fancy talk don’t work.
Barbara Corcoran
Pushy people deliver.
Barbara Corcoran
You gotta have a gimmick.
Barbara Corcoran
Step apart from the crowd.
Barbara Corcoran
Expand before you’re ready.
Barbara Corcoran
Be willing to flop.
Barbara Corcoran
Shoot the dogs early.
Barbara Corcoran
Pick good people.
Barbara Corcoran
I never really saw my mother sleep. In fact, she sat down only during dinner and later for about three minutes in the tub of our one bathroom. Although Mom was perennially pregnant, she was always on the move…
Barbara Corcoran
It seemed my mother could do a hundred things at once, all the while keeping at least one of her blue eyes on her ten children.
Barbara Corcoran
My mother’s genius. She kept her house going by putting her finger on the special gift she saw in each of her children and making each and every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours. Whether it was true or not, we all believed it.
Barbara Corcoran
I learned that men are just as attracted to the innocent virgin as they are to the blond bombshell. A simple gimmick pulled them to my counter, and my sweet-talking kept them coming back.
Barbara Corcoran
Why would anyone settle for a one-bedroom when for a similar price they could get a one-bedroom with a den?
Barbara Corcoran
[In October 1973] I held up the check again as if it couldn’t be real and looked at the number: $340.00! I’d seen only one check that was bigger in my entire life, and that was during my dad’s one short stint running his own business.
Barbara Corcoran
[In 1993] I had ended the previous year with a profit, a clear $71,000 after-tax profit, and it was burning a hole in my pocket. I knew God had put that money in my hand for some divine purpose, and I had already decided to spend all of it on my amazing video idea… Homes on Tape. HOT for short….
Barbara Corcoran
Thirty-two piles of black video boxes were stacked eight feet high against the back wall. My Homes on Tape idea had been dead on arrival, and not one person had come to check out our video sales tour. My brilliant marketing innovation had a pair of Achilles’ heels.
Barbara Corcoran
I glared at the eight-foot pile of videos sucking up the water from the basement floor and knew I should be giving some serious thought on how to recoup the $71,000 I had blown on my big idea. But instead all I could think about was the next big sales meeting and how stupid I would look standing there in front of everyone explaining why my great idea had bellyflopped.
Barbara Corcoran
[January 1994] I hired the video guy to put our Homes on Tape pictures on the World Wide Web… Within the month, four new customers found on properties on the World Wide Web, and my belly flop began to look like a heroic leap into the future.
Barbara Corcoran
Information that might seem mundane to you because you work with it day in day out can become the basis of a good story. The figures you knew well aren’t boring to an outsider who knows little about your business.
Barbara Corcoran
If you’re smart enough to package your own industry facts and figures into a simple statistical report, you’re bound to make news, as reporters base many of their stories on statistics.
Barbara Corcoran
[On ‘The Corcoran Report’] By putting my name on it, I became the expert and built my name brand.
Barbara Corcoran
I’ve learned that the first person the reporter reaches on a story he’s writing inevitably get’s the quote. If you’re the second person reached, you’ll be stuck confirming your competitors quote.
Barbara Corcoran
I’ve learned that lengthy answers never get quoted.
Barbara Corcoran
I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don’t jump on something right away, it’s like a bird flying by – it flies off.
Barbara Corcoran
I always think if I have an idea, I immediately move on it.
Barbara Corcoran
[On acting on a new idea] To start that fire and get it burning immediately, it’s everything.
Barbara Corcoran
When I don’t move immediately on something in my head, it’s gone.
Barbara Corcoran
You could have the best business idea in the world and I won’t touch it if I don’t think the person standing in front of me can be a star…
Barbara Corcoran
The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this: I borrowed a thousand dollars from a friend. Okay, I didn’t borrow it. He gave it to me. And he wasn’t a friend. He was a boyfriend.
Barbara Corcoran
I… vowed to myself that I would rather die than let him see me fail!
Barbara Corcoran
I’ve found that whenever I offered the other guy the bigger piece, I got what I wanted and it always tasted better.
Barbara Corcoran
My mother had a routine for everything.
Barbara Corcoran
While your goal may be to duplicate yourself, reel-to-reel, there’s really no one quite like you. You’ve got to accept an imperfect copy.
Barbara Corcoran
A job done 80 percent as well as you could do it is a job done well enough.
Barbara Corcoran
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