{"id":3621,"date":"2016-02-08T14:01:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T19:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2016-02-08T14:01:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T19:01:49","slug":"shark-tank-host-barbara-corcoran-running-a-company-is-as-close-to-being-god-as-you-can-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/beta\/shark-tank-host-barbara-corcoran-running-a-company-is-as-close-to-being-god-as-you-can-get\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Shark Tank&#8217; Host Barbara Corcoran: Running a Company Is as &#8216;Close to Being God as You Can Get&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by: \u00a0KRIS FRIESWICK<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cdnapi.kaltura.com\/p\/1034971\/sp\/103497100\/embedIframeJs\/uiconf_id\/30174211\/partner_id\/1034971?iframeembed=true&amp;playerId=kaltura-video-player-VideoPlayer-297&amp;entry_id=1_ig3zbqpb&amp;flashvars[streamerType]=auto\" width=\"560\" height=\"395\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Poor kids grow up to make better entrepreneurs than rich kids. This, says Barbara Corcoran, real estate mogul and regular on ABC&#8217;s <em>Shark Tank<\/em>,\u00a0is because &#8220;they have need. Poor kids have nothing to lose and nowhere to go but up. They need to succeed, and I&#8217;m telling you, I sit on that <em>Shark Tank<\/em>\u00a0set and I try to separate the men from the boys, the girls from the women, based on, &#8216;How much do they have to succeed?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That one trait, Corcoran says, is the key to success. &#8220;That&#8217;s the magic bottom line juice I&#8217;m looking for,&#8221; she says. &#8220;It&#8217;s very hard to have that innately if you&#8217;ve grown up with privilege, and a high degree of education. It truthfully is. You&#8217;re better off being poor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Corcoran knows what she&#8217;s talking about. She was one of 10 kids growing up in New Jersey. In her early 20s,\u00a0she started her own business with a $1,000 loan from a boyfriend and turned it into one of the most successful real estate companies in America, the Corcoran Group.<\/p>\n<p>But coming from a simple background was just one of the experiences that Corcoran credits for her success. As a dyslexic, she struggled in school, but, the upside was, &#8220;I&#8217;m great at rejection,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I had the great advantage of being a terrible student in school and feeling like the dunce. I was accustomed to being an outsider. 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