Alex Rodriguez and Big Cat Interview Shark Tank Shark Barbara Corcoran - The Corp

okay we welcome on someone everyone knows very well she is one of the hosts of Shark Tank it is Barbara Corcoran she's also obviously a very successful businesswoman before shark tank but Shark Tank is probably how you know her because she's come into your living room every Friday night yeah seem to be Sunday night soon-to-be son ooh is that breaking news breaking right here - there we go I'm gonna start this with a little bit offer for you okay I want to set the stage for you in 2014 no thank you in 2014 I offered Mark Cuban 10% of my brain for a million dollars he turned it down you don't have to answer now you can answer at the end of the interview I will offer you the exact same thing so my brain there is no you know it hasn't gone up in value whatsoever 10% of my brain million dollars at the end of this interview just keep that in the back your head yeah I don't have to have the answer already definitely not all right all right so barbel I could tell you not even smart just hearing that question let's get on with ten percent my brains a girl all right so I wanted to start a little background that you know everyone obviously knows you from shark tank but they might not know the background of how you got into business and kind of what at what moment in your you know upbringing did you realize you had that entrepreneurial bug I never realized that at all I knew I was a terrible student and couldn't succeed at school and I did know that every job I ever had people like me that was a head start because I started working at eleven and I enjoyed every job I ever had and so I really liked being on my feet I like people a lot but I never thought for a minute that that meant that you'd be good in business mm-hmm so when you say you weren't good at school like see student of or are you just saying well I was a straight up student oh really oh absolutely they just pushed me through that system to get rid of me no no but I did have Margaret Garrity who was the girl that lived down the street with the thick eyeglasses really chubby and nobody liked her I loved her she did my homework every night street smarts street smarts absolutely so you get into the real estate business in 1973 correct that's correct so how did that start what was the thought process behind it was a lucky break and it wasn't even my thought process I was a diner waitress in Fort Lee New Jersey and one night a man walked in and he became my first boyfriend I was 23 it wasn't like I was not wanting a boyfriend I just never had one and he gave me a ride home we became boyfriend and girlfriend he was 10 years older than me and it was he who said I should try my hand at real estate I had a great personality and he offered me $1,000 to start a brokerage firm he took 51% which now later I learned meant he controlled which I didn't know then right and I took the 49% and I started with my two roommates in New York City on my first apartment from this sofa until the landlord gave me an eviction notice because I was having customers come up and he thought I was a prostitute so I talked my way out of that one got his listings on his building and then I started building a little bit of traction okay and so then from that point what what's the next you know like okay now I want to get into the ownership side or build buildings or I never did build buildings I had opportunities to go in the commercial sector the every type of real estate but I do one thing well I hire good people and in the brokerage business I realized that that was the key to my success I hired great people I knew how to motivate them they loved my butt like nobody else in town and they would jump off a cliff for me because I would jump off a cliff for them and it was just using the same formula again and again that built that business and I thought it was wiser to stick with my knitting so going to your former barber we talked about this my name is I have a few you know I I played for 23 years in the major leagues and only won one world championship because it is so difficult to win not because the other 22 weren't good but it's all about people and I know that you and I share that and tell our audience or listeners what you look for in a great entrepreneur and so when you want is your teammate always the same qualities I I always look for someone who can sell because if the leader of anything can sell they usually can't build that comes together I also look for high energy I find that people duck don't have high energy popping out of their skin that they generally don't have the energy and drive that is going to take to build a business I look for someone who's naturally competitive and a poor loser not a good loser I mean they might be gracious with their words but they hate losing I hated losing anything I would compete with people that weren't even my competitors just because I didn't want them to be better than me kind of a sicko kind of a thing and that's the last magic quality that always guarantees success which is I look for someone who's needy has something to prove someone's had hardship growing up a dad that damned them to hell poor student some illness they got over something that puts claws on their hands to survive Barbara you presentation-wise you think presentations and porn sales oh you want softer insecurity absolutely I still go into any situation grossly over prepared because I'm afraid of failing yeah that will stay with me for life yeah it's hard to shake off stuff you know everybody's got that crap from childhood something you know it's hard to shake it off but that's my best advocate yes you've always thought outside the box so tell us an example that you've gone into different venues saw someone you liked and said hey maybe you can come work in my firm because I know you're not just traditional you know you're salesmen so you're gonna come here there's other times when you've seen great talent and you just say and you recruit them well who are where I recruited all my great talent my entire life was anywhere I would pick up people as a store clerk and Airlines serious became my general sales manager eventually after 20 years she was so talented cuz I saw how she handled a customer that was complaining in first class she's genius I hired the top salesman from the largest company in town when we were a fledgling company people couldn't believe it like how did I do it how did I get this hotshot first woman to graduate from Harvard Business School well-connected lady to work for me a blue collar a person really and how I got her is I romance the stone how I got her but quietly was I tell her I'd give her 100 percent of the commission I buy her a Rolls Royce and a driver and whatever else she wanted I paid for her clothes I went to the poorhouse hiring her because I needed a symbol that we had arrived and what do you think happened other high price people I was able to recruit so I was able to change my company from a low price firm to a highbrow firm over two year period because I was willing to go to the mat and do whatever I had know what was her title and how does she bring back the salesmen she was a well-known salesman with all the right connections and once I put her actually it wasn't a Rolls Royce was a Bentley a yellow Bentley and with a sold Sol D on her license plate she was an Intimidator she became twice as strong working with me as she had with the big firm because she was the Big Kahuna the Big Shot what about so you hire a very successful woman you obviously are a woman in a male-dominated industry at least in 1973 very much so it was an advantage yeah I was so talk about why you walk into a room of the old boys club some people say lucky sperm Club which was definitely true in New York City on the real estate end you walked into the room and you had men in dark grey suits navy blue suits all going to the same schools and I walked in a red hot suit with a short skirt with nice legs with high heels so I was noticed they didn't have to say what's your name I was the girl oh that girl all right that's a head start you know I also had a huge advantage once I started pulling my butt up the ranks of not being taken seriously do you know what an advantage it is for people to write you off I used to quietly say to myself you just wait hmm I'll take over your company right and fuelled me up so I was a huge advantage being woman and you can flatter men men are easy to sell I mean look at me with Alex every time I see I'm saying it was so good-looking I mean I just say it because he melts and then I'm like if I wanted to sell him something I have a double chance of selling you can't pull that off with a girl they slap you in the face sweet he's good-looking I exaggerate really really selling to me average yeah whatever I'm in average so let me ask you barb if you were going if you were back to that young lady who was a waitress my mother was a waitress and I've always admired your story and the way you're able to tell your story if you were if you know what you know now and you're broke and you back to being a 23 year old waitress what would you do right now to start your business if I was back that young age I would sell something I could afford so I wouldn't have been able to afford with my tips to open a real estate firm with a thousand dollars that was a lot of money then but I would find a way to go buy apples wholesale sell them on the corner where the overhead is low so I could get up charge on it and I would find something where I'm the boss the one thing I didn't enjoy in the 22 jobs I had before I found real estate is I never like my boss if I could do it all again I would have realized the only thing wrong with those jobs is I had to be the boss yeah make me a boss I'm gonna bring home the bacon somehow yeah but I would try to find something that I could easily afford at whatever money I had in hand to to sell so at the height of your career what was your hour were you 9 to 5 tell me a little bit about your work ethic and how long how many hours well my whole life I work morning till night I don't even know what hours I worked I work seven days a week as all on tours do if you're interested in what you did but once I had a firm with say five six seven hundred people I took a lot of vacation but I did it by design I took vacations regularly like every five weeks I would go on vacation two weeks now it's a lot of vacation for an entrepreneur I think I've learned about what it did for me is I toss the ball to my management staff and I didn't allow them to call me reach me even if it was an emergency I said I have total confidence you run the firm and you want to know what I got from that a powerful frontline everybody matured even the people sometimes surprise me that I didn't think had necessarily the talent I allowed them to grow up and beat yeah and so so and I got a balance life where I had a lot of fun a lot of vacations well that's interesting because I think a lot of people who are successful as you a lot of times they want to be involved in every little thing and they want to be in control of every little because they're perfectionist by Nature right yes and so it sounds like you're kind of the opposite way someone a little different than everyone else we've talked to and that you want to just empower good people to carry it on well I really want both I mean I really like perfection I really like things done well I love details cared about and I notice detail so I do want that but I think I learned in my fifth year in business that if you're gonna build a big business you have to accept 80% as good enough once I thought to myself well there 80% as good as me at that whatever that was that's good enough because until you set yourself free and allow that you can you don't have the time to build you really don't you can't move on to the next thing yeah when you're running 600 employees that's 600 personalities egos problems what did you learn from that and what was the most challenging part about scaling a business to that size the scaling the business was a snap for me I don't want to sound cocky because I'm one of 10 kids and my idea of heaven on earth is a crowd with not a lot of room and so I was building I now realized I was building a replica of my mother's family okay with the same attitude as the same ethics the same thing that went around our kitchen table right but Oh Alex I had a good thought what was that question again because I got off question what is the biggest challenge of managing 600 personalities and egos the biggest challenge of managing in my business was managing the superstars because they're racehorses they're not meant to be workhorses they work like crazy but they're a certain strain of personality I wired very needy very egocentric and they needed it from me almost like a indulge child where I had to overfeed them that was physically and emotionally exhausting come January the first two weeks of January every superstar of my company wanted to see me like I was a shrink and they all knew they would never sell again figure that out people make millions of dollars of my average man was making 65,000 they all needed my attention I'll never sell again never sell again but I found a system I'm very good at systems I knew how to take those people and make them feel like a million bucks because I believe they're worth a million bucks and literally they were worth a lot more than me but what I was able to do with these people is create a system that commanded respect and here's how my system went and I they know it now they didn't know it then every great salesman comes in and wants more from you they're never happy okay I want this I want that I want that I want that I kept a little index card under my phone where I had the initials of all my top ten salespeople who are producing 60% of my revenue and when they would come in I would give them one yes whatever they answer it and then I put X which meant next time they get it no they didn't know there was a pattern but they come in and want this I got of course they were relieved they got it coming the next time they asked me for that I go absolutely not so go o company you're asking too much absolutely not so I patterned them pattern because I couldn't keep straight who I was saying yes and no to so I'm a little X - X - X and I followed that and it saved me so much anxiety because it was a system for management that worked for these kind of egotistical very needy people anyone ever realized the system like come in and ask for a raise and then the next time I come in and asked like hey can I just get a new chair yes $200,000 car yeah no to the twelve dollar chair yeah and they've made no difference it made no sense but here's what was great about it I kept them guessing and they had it come to me and they didn't understand my logic and when people don't get you you have an advantage mm-hmm in anything you know they catch and figure out you've lost a big advantage so they probably thought I was a nut job so yeah barber Bank let me take you to more like now the mid 80s kind of early 90s you're humming along your business is doing wonderful not always you always have your real-estate recessions in between by the way right tell us you you talked about walking into a room full of men or executives with blue and gray suits and you come in and your dress looking great my question is take us inside your head like give us a nugget or two of why you were successful was because you're answering emails you knew more about different corners of real estate besides being a beautiful and being smart was all you hitting back on yeah yeah so with the competition you mean relative yeah but just what it was key to my success something like that well you know you have more glossary here yeah he runs Avenue Capital he has a beautiful townhouse how do you take his business and how do you sell his townhouse for ten twenty thirty five million dollars yeah broker well first of all I'm gonna ask him to give me the listing right away even if he's not ready to sell so I have it in writing that's great because I'd like six percent of anything there you go and I'm still licensed though I don't do the trade 120 I know I sold I got into the high priced market even before I had my high-priced salespeople because because I knew how to work the press hmm so if I was selling his townhouse whether it's true or not whether I had a planted or not I would create a gimmick whether it be make it grossly overpriced so it's double the price of anything in Manhattan because est sells in the media the biggest the most expensive the it's the it's the it's they'll always write about that or I would plant a safe in his basement and say if your townhouse was like a hundred years old I plant a safe I'm just thinking free yeah I like this okay I would plant a safe in your basement and buy it and make sure it couldn't be open with no combination and I'd say that there's a rumor that such and such as in the safe and we're gonna open it because you're dying to open it before you sell your townhouse now the sale goes into the media okay I'd invite the press in because it's a visual medium with cameras and I'd have everybody there to open the safe and see what was inside and then there'd be nothing inside who cares it's the idea you get them there with a safe gimmick or I'd put a cow on your roof and say that you just decided you wanted a cow and you found out it's illegal in New York and you're moving because of the damn cow have you picked you're holding a cow and loving I create some kind of crap to create media coverage and as a reason I keep talking to you and I do want that listing because and if you give these ideas to any other mediocre aging out there I want to kill you so I would create something to hype people always want hype people fall for what everybody wants and that's a major rule in all sales everybody wants what everybody wants nobody wants but nobody wants you have to create no matter what dog you have on your hands some reason for people don't want it okay less technical question how important is it to put down the toilet seat when showing the house gives a crap I feel like that's important really yeah I've always heard you started about your brain yeah that's that's the brain right there is amazing brain I'm sorry did barber not tell me to keep them guessing looks like I'm a quick study I actually have a real question that was you said most successful companies are run by partnerships did you have a partner in your in your company coming up and also what exactly does that like what's the thought process behind that listen most good marriages are run by good partnerships with opposite skillsets for the most part I think right most businesses that I have encountered definitely my own definitely the businesses I've invested in Shark Tank I love partnerships if they have opposite skillsets it's two for the price of one basically is what you get in talent right I was lucky enough to interview a woman who was almost twenty years my senior when I was thirty and she walked in wanting a sales position she was a secretary for a small law firm she was anything but a Salesman her name was Esther Caplan and yet when I was trying to uh sure out of my office knowing I'd never hire as a Salesman I interviewed constantly for talent I I noticed that when she took my business card she filed it in her little purse that was the neatest little purse with a class that was so concise she filed it and she the person she Ashley had a miniature file cabinet inside partitions I told her she'd be phenomenal at sale I wanted to take her under my wing right after I told her I had no desk suite I wanna run to my ring she was gonna be amazing amazing I lied through my teeth why did I do that to poor Esther Kaplan I want her as my business partner I knew she would be a perfect partner the day I met her because she was going to keep the files in order meet with the banks get the financial statements up to policy manuals it was a growing business she was going to do all that stuff I saw it just like a movie in my head and I brought her in and I gave her one percent of my company per year for the next ten years and she worked for me for free and I helped her sell learn how to sell was she ever a great salesman no was she as steady as she goes salesmen met her already you betcha and she eventually gave up sales and became my partner and I made her rich and she made me rich and I could have never built the business without her perhaps I would have found someone else but without finding that someone else it would have been distracting for me to spend my time on all the things that I do okay but that I don't love put someone in a seat doing what they love and they flower mmm everybody there's no difference between people like that so I happen to have her in her seat and me and my seat and we couldn't be more opposite not more opposite she would hide money as it was coming in she'd want me to see cuz I would spend the money before it would come in I get three ad agencies to show me a million dollar buy on a new corporate campaign I would run the boards into her and say which do you like only to find out what she hated she I hate that one that's the one I'd run with that's how bad she was at advertising she was opposite to me in every way so how lucky was I to get Esther how lucky was Esther to get me and I've seen that replicated over and over again with the businesses I buy in shark tank get me two guys two girls pitching and there's so office or am i I got a triple chance here to win right let's talk about dating dating yeah so I was a late comer but I'm available you may you mentioned being a woman and a predominantly male business coming again 80s 90s early 2000s it was changing though Alyx by the 90s there are a lot more few else coming in the field owning businesses how many times or can you even count did you get asked out in the middle of a sale or people thought oh maybe have a chance with this beautiful person you know you'd be surprised I don't think I'm the sexiest girl in town but I don't think I'm bad looking but rarely did that happen I was once I mean I had more problems honestly when I was an employee with the boss running around the desk after me taking a grab here or there but in those days it was kind of like that's the way it is you know you just giggle and move away as fast as you can but once I owned a business people really didn't hit on me except the developers once I went into getting larger buildings to sell the whole unit I had a couple of situations where developer where there was one I was shocked he had a secretary call and literally say I'll give you this what's it I almost said his name I won't yeah I'm fixing him wasn't even good-looking maybe that's why I was trying so hard but anyway he had a secretary embarrassingly : say we he's decided to give you the building provided you have a date with him I knew what the date man I tell him I told him to shove it up is you know where the Sun don't shine and what do you think happened to the end of that story you got it the building anyway so it was more of a problem as an employee certainly than when you're the boss yeah where's the real estate market going can you just tell me so that I can get some tips ok it's just a real question a fake question all right I'm embarrassed to say I'm not as informed as I should because I was always first hand on my desk on top of it but I have a lot of friends close friends and ex employees in the business and I can tell you the high end of the market is very soft as I think people readily know it's as soft as is the low end of the market hot it's a it's a diametrically a big word I think I'd be able to use that opposite kind of market go out in Manhattan today and look for a studio in one bedroom what you'll pay for a one-bedroom anywhere in town bearable that looks at a brick wall will be a million dollars ok go out and look for something you got money in your pocket to start bidding on a high-end property over ten million dollars you cash is king all right so it's a different and everything else is sort of in between yeah so always shocked at how many cranes are on the horizon yeah which spells development for the next three years at least yeah yeah late in the game for sure you took a thousand dollar loan and you grew a business and you exit it for 66 million not 66 season but but that's what people think Barbara's business is all about but there's actually something underneath that is much more valuable than that and you ran into this ironically by mistake tell us about you know what you talk about your offices that's worth way more tell us about that absolutely okay so when I was building my business I was always early in every market so I was downtown when no one was downtown I was in Brooklyn when no one was in Brooklyn well actually there were tiny companies in Brooklyn but I bought a tiny company with four offices but I ran into problems going into locales because I knew for me to turn a profit I needed at least 60 people in an office to turn a profit I knew it took me two years I had my formula I constantly worked and I couldn't find a floor plate with 60 people in Greenwich Village and Chelsea they didn't exist um so I was forced to because I was determined to open their early I was forced to buy buildings mmm okay scrounge around the 10% I don't know how I got my hands on it I guess I ate spaghetti for months or something come up with the 10% stick it down beg borrow and steal to get a loan and close on the job ten percent I could eat ninety percent debt 90 percent debt I was never afraid of debt because you know what's great about being poor you have nowhere to go but up nothing to lose you know when you're a rich kid you're worried about losing your dad's fortune right when you have nothing what do you care you go back to doing the same old stuff you started with so it's very freeing so I would go at risk at these buildings I was determined to get an office there and that would pay the rent for the first and second floor and I'd have tenants above typically rent control in these areas we couldn't get much rent but what do you think happened when I sold my business for 66 million which I don't know how many years ago that was 12 15 years times flying I found out that my property of the buildings I thought was worth more than my business I didn't feel that how hard did I work to build an equity where a sixty six billion every day of my life endless hours how hard did I work to make sixty six billion in real estate didn't do a thing come up with the ten percent there was one neighborhood they bought it believe is a meatpacking yes they you have refinanced they're like two or three times and you still own the building well that's actually a building on West 11th Street Greenwich Village I own two buildings on West 11th Street yeah that was my first two buildings yeah oh I refined oh yeah yeah I know what you mean alright so what happens very often is when you're building a business all your money's in the business that was am I talking too fast I feel like my mom doing great okay alright so what was I saying you were saying that one of the businesses that you bought buildings that you bought was a wonderful investment Seng yeah okay so when you're building a business all your money goes back into the business so I lived even though I had eight nine hundred employees I lived like I was starting out I never had a high overhead cuz I never had money for myself I took tiny little salaries because my whole goal wasn't to live well I'd had never lived well my whole goal was to build a business that's what I was betting determined do so I would constantly put the money back into the business but lo and behold what I didn't realize is when I finally had my first child of forty six and he's going to a private school in kindergarten my oh my god if I if I lose my shirt I'm gonna rip this kid out of school he needs his old bedroom he can't move into my one-bedroom with my husband and I and so what I did is I looked around for cash to buy an apartment the business didn't have it was a bad year but that's when I discovered the word refinancing mm-hm and I went back to that West 11th Street building that I had already by then owned for fifteen twenty years and I found out that $800,000 building that I had bought which has was making a lot of money with the rents coming despite the fact was still mostly rent control I found out that I could refinance it and pull out four million dollars tax-free yes that's free I'm sorry pulled out four million dollars I bought my first apartment Wow and every time I've upgraded my apartment or needed a country home or a ski house or a beach house I just refinance one of the buildings take the money out cash free and buy what I want it's a miracle what real estate does slow easy way to grow rich what's been your largest refinance well I'm pretty conservative you know I like to have equity probably I've never refinanced more than four million at a clip usually less yeah I don't like to I don't like to keep the building that skinny mm-hmm so shark tank we talk about shark tank yeah of course how'd you get involved in shark tank well who approached you at first um I just I just got a call from Mark Burnett productions that asked if I'd be interested in being on new show claw shark tank one of these girls have pitches does the peopling of the shows I guess that was her occupation and I thought it was a fishing show so I didn't think it was up my alley but when I heard it was my fishing show I said yeah it sounds like something I could probably do well with yeah so you get involved you you know you've obviously been on it you've been tremendously successful what is the best investment you made and what was the worst investment made on Shark Tank well most people think best means most profitable and clearly that would be Grayson lease which started as a lace baby sock company when they pitched on shark tank and today is a thirty million dollar a year business yeah top-line gross yeah so and very profitable because I've been repaid every year double full triple full again and again and again okay but they're great entrepreneurs and they had a dream didn't they passionate and they just keep building building building and they both talented the wife and the husband mm-hmm and interestingly enough they had that magical ingredient that I'd love to see which is hardship they had invented the little knit sock while the wife laid in bed when she was pregnant with the first baby for seven months and then lost a child and they were going to go down the drain on that one until Rick the husband said to his wife Madeleine Melissa we could've owned and grown and cry for the rest of our lives over this law so we can make something good of it and they built a south company yeah of those little baby socks that when I met them on shark that's fantastic and then what about the worst three you know I mean there's a lot of worse yeah I mean you know tell us sir here's a better way to explain it what is the character but no but what is the key so we don't the name names are bad ones but what is the characteristic that you have found common through a lot of the failing failed ones Oh undoubtedly the tendency to feel sorry for yourself you know when we close on a deal on Shark Tank we usually have a Skype call and we start working with them try to figure out what's working for them what they should do more in a very you know peripheral kind of a way and what I have found is after shark tank is over once they bared and they've had all this sales and all the glamour and they are suddenly a celebrity and you know all these entrepreneurs people know who they are can I have a selfie they're flying and then something goes wrong usually it's two to three months after they've appeared on shark tank the inventory didn't come out right they can't use it okay the kitchen blew up you name it things go wrong in businesses it's more not a matter of dreaming I think it's more of being able to get past obstacles so the first big obstacle comes up with the entrepreneur typical pattern this is when I pay attention before then I really haven't made a concise judgment of the entrepreneur because when I'm on the phone with a Skype call with them when the thing goes wrong I listen to their attitude mm-hmm there's only two ways people go one is they take it in the chin go like crap what am I gonna do I'm thinking of doing this bub up about they're moving on mentally then I have the two thirds of the entrepreneurs who are like you know he promised me I can't believe he did this to me I was told him I told him I hear that tone I go right over my wall where I have all my entrepreneurs in my office set in a beautiful matted frame and I turn them upside down and hang them upside down so I never make the mistake of putting any more time until mmm well I have his time I get spread more thin as every season is added I just want to spend time with the entrepreneurs that don't feel sorry for them so if you were to say how many investments how many companies you think you've bought over your time I've probably committed to 70 some-odd businesses and closed on a little bit better than 40 of them and now the other question that you would want to ask is what percentage of the 40 have been hugely successful yes and I would say eight 20 percent and the other ones that just failed miserably or they're just kind of hard they bumble by but will they approve a good investment for you for me definitely not will they prove a decent investment for the entrepreneur yeah they'll make a living but is there enough juice in it where an investor has any right being in there absolutely not and then you have about a third of the businesses that really have gone out of business years ago but they won't close up shop right because it's an admission of failure which is shameful whereas an ANA cowardice is what's associated with it to actually call it quits I happen to think the the courage is needed to call something quits at times and move on yeah they don't have that kind of car how much cash out of pocket have you you know that's a good question I don't know probably seven eight million dollars that's not including the million you're gonna give me at the end of this do you care more about the product or the people well I think I'd be nuts to care about the product it's always the people yeah I've invested in great people that have the wrong product and somehow they come through they reinvent the product they sometimes even to go into different areas of business but they're entrepreneurs does that have some shark tank where the product failed but you kept investing in the person Oh many times yeah many many times yeah and you know it's very sad on Shark Tank night it's that that shark tank magic that happens or what we call the shark tank effect anything that's at least worthy of selling something sells well mm-hmm but you get a lot of product that doesn't sell anything on strike tonight and that's a scary feeling it's like ah crap I invested in that right I've been very lucky to get to know you better over the last few years I think you have many superpowers but one that sticks out for me is your Forever Young attitude how do you stay so young and and fun well I kind of cheat you know I have my mother's genes she raised ten kids on a shoestring budget I never saw her sleep she did 12 loads of wash a day wearing the clothes and was always smiling so I got her genes let me tell you that's two-thirds of it right there so short of like killing myself I'm not gonna run out of energy because she never ran out of energy until the day she dropped dead and I suspect I hope that's gonna be my shark tank seat because I'll at least help the ratings bull yes shock Dyson see ya I hope when I die you're next to me is Kevin O'Leary really a pushover new life come on you just have to watch Kevin O'Leary when his wife Linda walks onto the set and he starts shaking she's so in charge of yeah that's great that's fantastic yeah I mean he's great obviously for the dynamic that you guys all have to oh he's created the show yeah some you need someone to hate and even as the years go on even those people who used to hate him see right through after a while you see he's not a bad guy yeah what's routine that's next I mean do you have have you build your dream home have you bought your dream home what's next what why are you still doing it hey listen I've built my sixth dream homes I have the most beautiful apartment role of New York I'm sorry to say I'm sure yours is nice but I'll never invite you over cuz you'll cover of course I have dream homes you know the only thing that I keep my eye on his health and my kids I have a 24 year old four year olds great kid and I'm 13 year olds so far great kid and and I have a husband that drives me absolutely nuts which means I was here or on earth before and I'm getting punished for something or whatever but no I do I have a dream yeah I just want I want to go on forever well you use it what are you doing for training these days you know what I have an a nutrition nutrition I eat what I want which is mostly bread cheese and good wine oh yeah good wine in my book is under 15 a bottle but relative to that good wine and I work out religiously from the day I gave birth to Tommy three times a week three hours a week but I've got a good body just bounces back and I've goofed off I get there from mom or dad my mother and father both physically were very strong yes energized you can I pitch you some of my ideas you know you might want to send me an email first series first one okay Alex you're gonna invest I'm not doing okay do you ever you obviously take the year in New Yorker you take the train I assume not anymore okay not anymore but you did yeah used to yes do you remember that feeling when you run down and you miss the train by a silent second yeah the worst feeling worse than by a mile it's the worst okay so here's my idea everyone signs a waiver in New York City and the last train is actually just a flatbed that you can jump on if you die you die and we get New York gets your life insurance money but you don't have to deal with that feeling of going down and missing the train by just a second yeah I think that's really a stupid like yeah okay every creepy guy is gonna be there groping girls what do you mean and right now it's not a good time to introduce aside okay your timing is terrible all right next one beep really get better yeah oh yeah babe really hot right now what's really hot v.o those yeah okay food always hot yeah all time yeah food vape yeah great just combine them it's like yeah okay gift shirts do you know what a gif is can't you put on a shirt cute idea okay last one this one you actually invested in but I think we need an upgrade the booby pack you invest in the booby packet is a fanny pack bra uh-huh what about for men now because I have breasts can I tell you that's a good publicity hook if you're willing to take your shirt off but that's the cow on the top of the tree right but you get the publicity but not a lot of sales okay yeah that's just a taste of my that you could invest in for cheap cheap price amazing amazing you're making me realize how smart I won when I when I pitched to Cuban I gave him a little bell and I was like as soon as you're done with the idea you can hit the bell and I pitched him 20 ideas and he was just going like this I'm happy you become more realistic and pitchy what were those four long ones or four ideas I just want to basically I have one more first of all I've always admired you but I really admired you for what you do for society for philanthropy you're someone that's always giving back you're such a role model just so many I know my two daughters adore you and love you as they watch shark tank forever I met your daughter yes we're very excited I guess I'm always thinking my audience is my daughters and our children what advice in today's you know we're 2018 much different time would you give I always tell them you can be president CEO you can do anything you want what advice would you give to the next generation especially those young women out there that want to be the next Barbara you know what I think it's not a good idea to impose that kind of pressure on kids you know I had the advantage of no pressure I just had to be a nice person that's not a big deal you know I think it's important like kids know that they should be exactly what they want to be and that might be a full-time housewife what's wrong with that if you'd be great mother and raise great kids nothing right I just think girls should feel the empowerment not to be judged and be whatever the heck they want so I'm not a big believer you can you know of course if you dream of something I think you must put everything in your power to get behind and make sure it comes true if not even for reaching the dream you don't want to have a life of regret well we all think of people that are unhappy it's not people who tried and fail this or that it's the people who never tried this or that because they were afraid you know that's the sad people in life the people who wish they should have coulda they quietly have it inside they don't tell you about it but I could pick it up off someone right away they fail to themselves so I think trying for what you want is the key and not what you want is it big enough important enough is it intelligent enough you know just whatever you want go for you have one shot unless you believe you come back at as a rabbit or or squirrel they know you have those people out there I just believe you have one shot kind of thing you gotta go for it you know I like that be yourself you be your best self and don't sell yourself short mm-hmm don't sell yourself short yeah you know life can life can make you feel poorly about yourself but only if you're not really pushing hard against what you believe yourself should be that's your best insurance policy not to feel badly about yourself yeah you know because my god I had enough people my whole life telling me I was stupid just because I couldn't read how wrong was that how dare they say that I mean now I'm happy I experienced that because it gave me fuel to get even you know the Revenge of the nerd the dumb person got the Ranger the dumb person but yeah you gotta you got to get out of life what you can I mean why wasted so precious anything left in your bucket list no I do everything I want no if I could have one thing on my bucket list I would have three solid hours a day to tend my garden here in Manhattan my little pots and I never have enough time but you know what I'm always on the verge I'm always on the verge I'm gonna get that yeah and I don't want to give up anything else to make the time so I'm just talking I'm not acting if I really wanted I'd be out there with my buckets my own up buckets use a bucket with my pots I love it okay well thank you Barbara appreciate it my pleasure Deal or No Deal with you always very nice people gonna relate to you but not a lot of smart ones tell us just one thing about season ten are you excited about it of course you know what I like about season ten we're bringing more real people on set we've had less technology pitches I think the technology pitches on Shark Tank can get really boring they very often don't air and nobody feel sorry for the kid that went to Wharton we raised ten million dollars and is out for the Sharks to give him a second round of twenty million dollars what I feel like looking at that guy I want to kick him off the set or she kick her off the set like why don't you let it regular person who scrapped and saved put a mortgage on his house only has 500 bucks in this business let him have a shot what are you doing occupying that shot so there's less of that that's my pet peeve everybody's got a bitching about something and so you have a lot more real people who are struggling it's a less desperate act nowhere to turn sweat on their palms tears that on the boat who is the best regular shark mark why I'm gonna say that cause he's a billionaire if I have any money I'm gonna quote myself he's the best because he has the widest range of intelligence in my book and he has a genuine heart you know intelligence can get in the way of a good heart you know get to be a snob you start to feel above people there's not an ounce of that Mark Cuban do you mind sharing with our audience the secret you told me while we were a shark tank you leaned over and you say you know marks after the first day of course you know Mark Cuban came in as a guest shark and I knew he had a guest shark whose name was Mark Cuban but I don't read anything so I didn't know who Mark Cuban was and season 3 season 3 yeah well maybe season two no three but whatever one of those early seasons anyway he came in a t-shirt and jeans and I saw him yesterday if I needed help with my bags he took them to my trailer I went to Tim but I didn't on my wallet because no no no no problem no problem I thought he was like a nice guy on the set you know one of the hands something anyway next thing I know what he's sitting next to me in this million dollar suit I'm like well mr. Cuban mr. young misty it must be somebody and been anyway I had shared with Alex when Alex went on the set of shark tank he sat down on the seat and I went boom I felt it and I think I told you within minutes when or maybe when we had our first pitch on the break I said you know what when Mark Cuban came in as a guest shark he's only supposed to be a guest he sat in that seat like he owned it and you just did the same thing it was a heaviness now we've seen millions of guests sharks very capable business people but there's a difference there's like a little air between there but not cocky but he can't have my seat yeah you and Lori are my favorite really I like that but I wish you'd just say you're my favorite thank you so much my pleasure very nice being here awesome

Channel: The Corp With A-Rod and Big Cat

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Length: 47min 10sec (2830 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 31 2018