7 Things I Learned from Barbara Corcoran on Young Entrepreneurship

One night last week, I watch what seemed like fifteen short videos of Barbara Corcoran speaking during the Inc. 500 | 5000 Conference. I walked away with a boat load of confidence and some hard-hitting truths. Barbara doesn’t hold her tongue or opinion for anyone, she gives it to you straight from the hip, never holding back. I admire her transparency because she was able to teach me some important lessons for the young, aspiring entrepreneur that’s in all of us. Check out the Resources section below for links to all of the videos in Inc.’s Lessons for Entrepreneurs with Barbara Corcoran.

1. It’s the big mouth that inherits the earth.
2. Everybody wants what everybody wants and nobody wants what nobody wants.
3. If you’re an entrepreneur, you are in the sales business. you are the chief salesman. And if you can’t sell, you’re business ain’t gonna work.
4. The big guy is always gonna have the corner on money, but the little guy, let me tell you, Always has the corner on creativity. and its creativity that makes things click in bad times.
5. If I could get the courage to say to myself: ‘I have the right to be here, I have the right to claim success for what I want, I have the right to be somebody.’ And it got me at least to the cliff to jump off.
6. I found that charge in entrepreneurship is to get the courage to jump off the cliff without logic. Because if you jump off the cliff and put yourself in that position then you know something, you do find the answer on the way down.
7. If you feel like you have the right to the success for taking that chance, i find that entrepreneurs again again get what they want if they’re not trying to find the logic in why they should do it.

Resources:
You Have The Right To Be There
Barbara Corcoran Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Inc.
Barbara Corcoran, Cool Hunting
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