This is the story of Richard A. Corbett: An alcoholic mother. An
absentee father. A youth spent searching for a way to prove
himself. A search that leads to boxing titles, street smarts,
wilderness survival skills, degrees from Notre Dame and Harvard, an
enviable spot in the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy, and
later a place at Robert Kennedy's side when he dies.
It all started with lots of dreams and no money, Corbett leaves
the secure cocoon of the Kennedy family's inner circle to find out
if he has what it takes to succeed on his own. Having helped manage
the Kennedy family's real-estate trust portfolio, he chooses real
estate, but despite good connections and enough bravado to fuel an
empire, the climb is treacherous. But life has taught him how to
get up again, and long hours spent studying the business files of
Joseph Kennedy--a trove of papers left to gather dust--have
equipped him with an understanding of what it takes to win. The
Kennedy maxims are not for the weak or the hesitant; they're
no-nonsense basics useful only to those with the vision to
recognize opportunity and the guts to take the risk.
The story that follows tracks the rough-and-ready life of a man
who won't accept failure as an outcome. Setbacks large and small
are mined for lessons on how to do it right the next time. And one
small success leads to another, larger one, until the dream
achieved is grander than any restless youth could have
imagined--and wealth greater than the assets Joe Kennedy
accumulated.
In Corbett's long and remarkably successful career, his
commitment to economic development and growth management have been
stunningly reflected in the more than $1 billion dollars of complex
real estate ventures he's financed, developed, and constructed,
including International Plaza--a mixed use retail, office, and
hotel development of approximately three million square feet at the
Tampa International Airport. Corbett's work has generated thousands
of permanent jobs, hundreds of new commercial sales entities,
office space, adjunct hotels, and restaurants and produces hundreds
of millions of dollars annually for the regional economy, yielding
substantial tax revenues that benefit the community.
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