Kevin O Leary Quotes
Kevin O Leary Quotes
I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.
Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!
The only reason to do business is to make money; that’s the only reason for doing business.
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.
You can’t regulate a soul into a business.
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.
Kevin O’Leary Quotes on Making Money
The only reason to do business is to make money; that’s the only reason for doing business.
I’m not trying to make friends; I’m trying to make money.
Kevin O’Leary Quotes about Business
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.
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.
All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.
Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!
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Kevin O’Leary Quotes on Economy
Trump has been very, very open and clear on what he’s going to do. He’s going to make the U.S. very competitive on taxes, corporate and personal. He’s eliminating policy on carbon and the regulatory environment on shale and energy and pipeline development. These are all things that Canada has to do and we no longer have a competitive environment to do them in. It manifests itself in the slow grind of our economy.
If you put Canada into $1.5 trillion in debt and interest rates go up just 200 basis points, you cannot provide the services to 36 million people that were guaranteed to them in the social contract they have with Canada. That’s a very, very scary prospect. You can’t burden this economy with that much debt. The risk you take on is insurmountable. You have to assume for the next 50 years that rates don’t go up? That’s insane. That’s irresponsible. That’s stupid.
You either make it illegal, in which case you support a huge underground economy or you tax it within the limits people can afford.
Kevin O’Leary Quotes about Opportunity
The skies were blue when I was coming up. I want my kids to have the same opportunity, if not better, than I had.
Basically, if you’re a young Canadian now and Trudeau puts this country into $1.5 trillion in debt, you will never have the opportunity that I had as a young Canadian.
So much of life is a negotiation – so even if you’re not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
Kevin O’Leary Quotes on Cars
I’m starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I’ve driven a lot of cars – sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there’s nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.
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.
We have to change public perception of ex-convicts. Most Canadians don’t realize that when you come out of prison, you’re a complete pariah. You can’t get a car loan or money from a bank to start a business. So most end up back in prison within 24 months. It’s just so wrong. We need to fix this problem.
Kevin O’Leary Quotes on Age
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.
Trudeau motivated people between the ages of 18 to 35 to vote, and 82 per cent of them voted for him. That changed Canadian politics forever. If they stay motivated, and believe me, they are, no party can ever get a majority mandate again without winning at least 60 per cent of those voters. There hasn’t been a Conservative candidate in 15 years that ever got on a campus anywhere here in any Canadian university and wasn’t thrown stones at.
I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.
Kevin O’Leary Quotes on Negotiation
So much of life is a negotiation – so even if you’re not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
I see negotiations as an honest attempt to reach a deal that’s great for everyone at the table. But sometimes, for whatever reason, that’s impossible. You need to accept that possibility-don’t make a deal for the sake of making a deal. If you do, chances are it will fall apart later anyway, with costs and headaches for everyone involved. And once you walk away, don’t come back.
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.
Kevin O’Leary Quotes about Investment
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.
I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.
Kevin O’Leary Quotes about Giving
If a man could give birth it would be to a book – it’s an 18-month gestation period.
If you put a woman in prison for four years when she’s young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.
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.
I’m not planning on giving my kids any of my wealth. They know when their education is over, I’m pushing them out of the nest. The bird you see dead under the nest is the one who didn’t think about the future.
Kevin O’Leary Quotes Opportunities to practice
So much of life is a negotiation – so even if you’re not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
Kevin O’Leary Quotes Articulate your Idea
What are the most important qualities that make a successful entrepreneur? The ability to communicate. The ability to express your idea with certainty. That’s how you become a leader-even if you are unsure, your ability to explain your vision and your direction is the attribute you need the most. … Articulate your idea in 90 seconds or less.
Kevin O’Leary Quotes about Home
Here’s how I think of my money – as soldiers – I send them out to war every day. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there’s more of them.
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.
