If You Don't Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails : And Other Lessons I Learned from My Mom

by Littlefield, Bruce; Corcoran, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9781591840336
• ISBN10: 1591840333
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781101513279
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-30
• Publisher: Portfolio Trade
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Summary

After failing at twenty-two other jobs, Barbara Corcoran borrowed $1000 from her boyfriend, quit her job as a diner waitress, and started a tiny real estate office in New York City. Using twenty-four unconventional lessons learned from her mom, Barbara built that tiny company into a $4 billion business, and today she’s richer than her wildest childhood dreams.Barbara’s hilarious stories and her mom’s pithy advice—from If you want to be a cheerleader, you better know the cheers” to Jumping out the window will make you either an ass or a hero”—are bound to inspire greatness in any reader. This national bestseller (previously titled Use What You’ve Got) will make you feel better about yourself and teach you to look at obstacles in a whole different way.

Author Biography

Barbara Corcoran, the founder and chairman of The Corcoran Group, is a motivational dynamo. Visit her on the Web at www.BarbaraCorcoran.com.

Bruce Littlefield is a journalist and playwright. He recently used Barbara-'s lessons to open The Rosendale Cement Company, a restaurant in upstate New York