Barbara Corcoran Quotes

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.

It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

I think I've been a moderately good boss. I've made a lot of people extremely wealthy - I think we've created 30 millionaires.

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

We need young Frenchmen who want to become billionaires.

We have some of the smartest businessmen in India, who have created huge wealth.

Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it's not championship. It's the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.

I started off in Brooklyn, New York, with a small loan and built a business that today is worth well over $10 billion.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

I eventually settled in Washington, where my partners and I have been fortunate to build a restaurant business that now employs thousands of Americans across the country.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.

Building companies involves creating great wealth. If that means I am an oligarch, OK, it's fine. But if being an oligarch is about buying football clubs, it is not for me.

I have started many companies now worth more than $100 million. So I know a little about business.

The success of Wipro has made me a wealthy person.

In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered.

Making the first million is hard; making the next 100 million is easy.

If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now.

Floyd has done a lot for me financially and has taught me a lot about business. He did great in making money during his career and he tells me a lot of what he's working on.

I built a net worth of more than $10 billion. I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility.