Barbara Corcoran Quotes

Forget about perfection; it doesn’t exist.

Everyone recognizes and responds well to people who act like themselves. You don’t have to be fancy, you just have to be yourself.

If people like you, they’re going to want to do business with you. And if they don’t you’re going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.

The truth is you can teach any skill, but you cannot change a bad attitude.

If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.

Procrastination is the enemy of success and the guilt of not doing something always steals your energy.

Don’t be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It’s when you’re uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.

“I looked at the average interest rate of the last 50 years in America and it was almost 8%. And yet people relatively are seeing our current interest rates as a lot of money,” “They’re really not. [Interest rates] are simply average.

Your heart must always be in it. That’s part of an entrepreneurs DNA.

The joy is in the 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.

Just make sure you really dress up and look the part of somebody energized, ” she said. “That’s the way you should be conducting your interview — from a place of energy.”

I consider rejection a lucky charm.

You can’t study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump

Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it’s there.

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.