Barbara Corcoran Quotes

Barbara Ann Corcoran is an American businesswoman, investor, speaker, business consultant, syndicated columnist, author, and television personality. As a television personality, she is a Shark investor on ABC's Shark Tank. She graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas College with a degree in education in 1971. After graduation, she taught school for a year, but soon moved on working various jobs including a side job renting apartments in New York City. She wanted to be her own boss, and in 1973 co-founded a real estate business called The Corcoran Group with her wealthy boyfriend, who fronted a $1000 loan. In the mid-1970s she also began publishing The Corcoran Report on real estate data trends in New York City. In 2001, Corcoran sold her business to the giant NRT Incorporated for $66 million.