Kevin O'Leary Quotes
I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.
You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.
Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.
I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.
My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.
Downturns are the best time to start businesses because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.
The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.
If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.
The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.
Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.
So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!
I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.
Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.
People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.
Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.
I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.
The practical reality of managing cars in the family - I do 36-month leases. I think they're horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over.
For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.
There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.
I'm ashamed of what has happened to Canada. And I'm not leaving a $1.5 trillion deficit to my kids. No chance in hell is that happening.
I have no baggage in politics. I've never been a politician. I don't owe anybody anything.
Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.
The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life.
People say that I can't speak French. C'est pas vraiment placé. I'm getting better every day. I just have to keep practising. That's the truth.
I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.
Canada has always been ready for the truth. I think they actually appreciate a politician or anybody as a leader who tells the truth.
I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.
You can't win a majority mandate unless you get back 60 per cent of the votes between the ages of 18 and 35. It's a fact.
There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.
Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.
