Don’t you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
Barbara Corcoran Quotes
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 having fun.
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| Birth: | 10th March, 1949 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Businesswoman |
About
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.
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