The Corcoran Group

“No, he owned 51%. And That's how I found out the value of that one percent.”

“It's not a black and white game marketing. It's a softer side of things, right? It involves exaggeration. It involves an acumen for seeing what a storyline is, or what would capture people's interest.”

“Great. Come back when you get sixty-six million cash. And he said, why sixty-six million? I said, because it's worth it. And I hung up, and I said to my brother, John, just got twenty-three million. Think of that, John. Imagine us having twenty-three million d…”

“Because every one of my great successes building the business, the ones that were bellwether changes that I thought, wow, did that make a change? They were always a result of an insult.”

“Whenever I had spare money, I would divide it by an overhead monthly, figure out how many bodies I could afford, like a mother paying for their kids, and then I would go out and hire that many people. That's, it was a simple formula I never changed, and it was…”

“I remember answering that phone, sitting there, And thinking, I'm going to be the queen of New York real estate.”

“To see those apartments, and I'm telling you, an hour and a half, I had more than a million dollars in net commissions.”

“Well, I was really on the brink of declaring that it was over, but I was ashamed in trying to make back the money I owed to various suppliers like my ad agency the New York Times, but I owed over 300,000 dollars.”

“And Ray gave me the thousand dollars I started in my own firm.”

“Initially, if I had been a big company, and I'd run it by attorneys, vetting, committee decisions, it would have never gone out. The beauty I had as a little guy is I had the freedom to run it.”