"Corcoran is a lightning bolt of energy
caught in a 5 foot 6 frame." - USA Today
"Barbara is the most quoted, visible real estate contributor on the scene today." - New York Magazine
"Her manner is frank and energetic, but for all her drive,
she has no airs." - The NY Times
Barbara Corcoran’s credentials include straight D’s in high school and college and twenty jobs by the time she turned twenty-three. It was her next job, however, that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country, when she borrowed $1,000 from her boyfriend and quit her job as a waitress to start a tiny real estate company in New York City. Over the next twenty-five years, she’d parlay that $1,000 loan into a five-billion-dollar real estate business [...]