Kevin O'Leary quotes

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. (Kevin O'Leary)
I keep anywhere between 5-10 percent of my net worth in venture ideas. View quote
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Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you. View quote
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In his first term, President Barack Obama played a cautious manager navigating the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and cleaning up the messes left by President George W. Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them. View quote
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Money equals freedom. View quote
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I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance. View quote
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So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you. View quote
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I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one. View quote
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Don't cry about money, it never cries for you. (Kevin O'Leary)
I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy. View quote
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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. View quote
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Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely. View quote
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A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader. View quote
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I have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and even the work ethic to succeed - but who are so obsessed with an idea that they don't see its obvious flaws. Think about that. If you can't even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on? View quote
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Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can. View quote
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I look at Twitter as brand building. (Kevin O'Leary)
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win. View quote
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Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital. View quote
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I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money. View quote
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When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there's a third aspect: What you feel in your gut. View quote
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Kevin O'Leary

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Photo: Randstad Canada, CC BY 2.0
Occupation: Canadian Businessman
Born: July 9, 1954
Quotes count: 63