Barbara Corcoran Quotes

No means maybe in real estate.

If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss.

Buying a home is a very emotional process. It's important to remain rational and stick with your price limit while buying.

I think that real estate consumers are stuffy; I think they're scared. They don't buy a house every day. It's a very infrequent purchase.

Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.

I do real estate.

What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.

Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.

Never make too good of a deal. It sounds a little counterintuitive, but the deals that are too good of a deal for you in the long run will end up hurting you. A lot of people in our business don't realize that. They think their job is to go in a room and negotiate the highest price.

It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.

I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.

I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

In any negotiation, my goal is to be the most unreasonable person in the room.

Is anything more common in public negotiations than to begin with a higher demand, and that failing, descend to a lower?

We always find that taking a fairly hard-line position means our membership gets the best deal possible.

You can never in negotiations be totally predictable. The minute you’re predictable, they’re going to figure out how to take advantage.

There's a lot of drama that goes into just buying a house, let alone renovating a house.

I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.

Anytime someone asks me to look at a new house with them, I'm like, 'Yes!'

And I also think it's a violin when you're selling it and a fiddle when you're buying it.

In broadcasting, especially 'cause people are more public, it's hard to be like 'so what are you making?' Finding that information is huge when you're negotiating a contract. You wanna make sure that you're in the same ballpark.

You are not going to get married through technology. You are not going to buy a house through technology.

I think, with a negotiation, you have to go in knowing what you want, knowing what your bottom line is, and knowing what you might accept if you're absolutely pushed.