But my greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever? I know that it is what built my real-estate business, because I had an innate ability to picture everything in living color, as though it had already happened.
— (Barbara Corcoran’s Favorite Mistake: Believing She Was Stupid - The Daily Beast)