Barbara Corcoran Quotes

“Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.”

“I hire many people that are older … and they have so much more wisdom.”

“Just make sure you really dress up and look the part of somebody energized.”

“Buy with your heart, not your head.”

“The concept of being 'too old' to revamp your professional life is increasingly outdated.”

“There's no circumstance that I run into that I haven't seen before and have a solution for.”

“I looked at the world through my own eyes and I saw opportunity everywhere.”

“I believe in the power of my own instinct.”

“I have learned that the best way to get ahead is to take risks.”

“I always say that the best way to predict the future is to create it.”

“I never let my age define my capabilities.”

“I thrive on challenges and I love to prove people wrong.”

“If you want to be bigger, act bigger. People treat you the way you present yourself.”

“You really regret when you don't confront things. Walking away from a well-fought fight, you resent it and regret it for the rest of your life.”

“Recovering from failure, in my book, is 95 percent of life. If you're going to have a good life, you'd better be really good at getting back up, like a jack-in-the-box, boom, boom, boom. Just get back up.”

“I never saw myself as a woman. I never saw it as a disadvantage or a real advantage. I saw myself as a competitor, just a competitor. And boy, if they treated me badly, or spoke down to me, or didn't give me any credence that I could possibly make it in their world — they thought I was a passerby — I would say to myself, 'You just wait, I'm going to become your biggest rival.'”

“People want to do business with someone they like. 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.”

“I work for you, you don't work for me. That's been my attitude my entire life. What can I do for you? How can I make your job easier?”

“The best successes often happen on the heels of failure. I learned that the harder the ball hits the pavement, the bigger the bounce. You just have to stay in the game long enough to see it come back.”