Barbara Corcoran studied at St. Thomas Aquinas College and in 1971 attained a degree in education. After she graduated, she tried teaching for almost a year, however she clearly wanted something greater; Corcoran wanted to be her own boss. After working at almost 20 odd jobs, she decided to start her own business. She took a $1,000 loan from her wealthy boyfriend at that time and used that to co-create a business in real estate which she called ‘The Corcoran Group’. By mid 1970s Barbara Corcoran started publishing ‘The Corcoran Report’ that featured real estate data developments. Later on her boyfriend ran away with her secretary but left Corcoran with a thriving business and no regrets.
Corcoran turned $1,000 into billions. In 2001, the real estate mogul sold her real estate company to NRT LLC for seventy million dollars. Corcoran has mentioned several times that she was not a straight A student in high school or college but using her innate entrepreneurial talents she made it to the top. After she sold her company her worth as a real estate expert increased even more and she emerged in the New York real estate scene as a prominent personality. Corcoran is also a well-known media person; she appears on NBC’s Today Show as a real estate contributor. She hosts CNBC’s The Millionaire Broker with Barbara Corcoran. She is also a columnist for ‘The Daily Review,’ ‘More Magazine,’ ‘Red Book,’ and writes a weekly column in the ‘New York Daily News’. She is often invited to real estate events as a business speaker. She is a ‘Shark Investor’ in the hit ABC series Shark Tank in which she invests in the businesses of new entrepreneurs. In the first season of the show, the eight businesses that Corcoran invested in turned out to be very successful.
Corcoran’s entrepreneurial spirit is appreciable. She has penned many books that include, “If You Don’t Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtail,” “Amazing Places to Live the Rest of your Life,” and “Nextville.” Her book, “Shark Tales,” takes you behind the scenes of her life and business and her ‘as seen on TV’ venture capitalism. Barbara is famously brash, blunt, bold, courageous, and a brilliant identifier of opportunity and talent (often invisible to others).
Barbara Corcoran is a very inspiring motivational speaker. She has an inspirational attitude towards life, which has a great influence for young businesspeople. Currently, she lives in New York City along with her husband and two children.
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Barbara's Inspirational Rags to Riches Story
How do you turn a $1,000 loan into a five-billion dollar business? According to self-made real estate empress Barbara Corcoran, you do it by learning how to fail well. Barbara tells the story of how, armed with a loan from her boyfriend and her own gritty determination, she quit her job as a waitress to start a tiny real estate company in New York City and turned that company into a multi-billion dollar business. A highly motivational and hugely entertaining success story with the big life lessons Barbara learned along the way.
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10 Ways To Lead Your Team To Greatness
Entrepreneurs, business managers and salespeople alike benefit from lessons in how to get people moving on the path to greatness. Barbara Corcoran, who built The Corcoran Group, New York's largest real estate company, is an expert in the art of leading a team to success. From hiring the right people and firing the wrong ones, establishing an atmosphere that breeds innovation, persisting when all the chips are down and creating fun in the workplace, Barbara shares her unique and winning strategies.
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10 Ways To Build a Powerful Brand
Branding may be the single most important key to success in today's highly competitive world of commerce. Barbara Corcoran is known for having built the most successful real estate brand in New York City, and now she reveals easy to follow tips on how she does it: how to create an image much bigger than reality; how to use the press to get free publicity; how to turn yourself into the go-to expert in your field. Barbara shares her personal advice, insights and anecdotes on creating a powerful brand.
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If You Don't Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails: And Other Lessons I Learned from My Mom
Barbara’s hilarious stories and her mom’s pithy advice—from “If you want to be a cheerleader, you better know the cheers” to “Jumping out the window will make you either an ass or a hero”—are bound to inspire greatness in any reader. This national bestseller (previously titled Use What You’ve Got) will make you feel better about yourself and teach you to look at obstacles in a whole different way.
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Nextville: Amazing Places to Live the Rest of Your Life
WHAT ARE YOU DOING THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?Where, and maybe more importantly, how do you want to live once you've escaped the 9-to-5? Barbara Corcoran has built her career on knowing where people will live even before they know it themselves! Now she turns her keen eye toward predicting "the next big thing" in real estate-where and how the over 77 million baby boomers will live when they retire. In NEXTVILLE, Corcoran identifies the top eight trends that are changing where (and how) boomers are retiring. And she helps you figure out what's most important to you in your next place-whether it's pursuing your passions, living green, finding community, living young in a city or college town, or even staying right in your old home town. Corcoran also delivers her signature "Barb's Rules" on where and how to get the most out of the next great stage of our life. Let Barbara help you make the smartest real estate choices today to ensure a secure, comfortable, and fabulously fun tomorrow.
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