Biography of Barbara Corcoran

Barbara Corcoran's amazing rise to the top has become the stuff of legend and inspiration. Her credentials include straight D's in high school and college and over twenty jobs by the time she turned twenty-three. It was her next job 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 The Corcoran Group, New York City's leading real estate company with over $5 billion in closed sales volume in 2003 and 45 offices with more than 2,150 sales associates and employees in New York City, the Hamptons and Palm Beach. How'd she do it? She listened to her mother.

Barbara's national bestseller, Use What You've Got & Other Business Lessons I learned from My Mom, reveals that her secret to success has been to steadfastly apply her mom's kitchen table wisdom. The paperback edition is titled, If You Don't Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails. All of Barbara's profits from the book fund the specialized education of dyslexic children.

Motivational, inspirational, and sometimes outrageous, Barbara Corcoran's tell-it-like-it-is attitude is a fresh approach to success. According to CNN, Barbara is the most sought after broker in the city and is considered one of the most powerful brokers in the country.

Barbara Corcoran can be seen regularly on Good Morning America, The Today Show, The View, and is a regular commentator on Fox News. Her New York Times best-selling motivational business book, If You Don't Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails, written with Bruce Littlefield, was the winner of the 2004 Audie Award for Best Business Information/Educational Book.