Kevin O'Leary Quotes
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When you're travelling, your day is jam-packed. I just don't have time to whip out a PC all the time. But I can whip out a BlackBerry and tweet. I keep a constant diary of where I'm at and why I'm there.
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Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail.
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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.
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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.
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If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.
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I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.
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There's something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It's powerful.
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My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.
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Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.
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Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.
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Having won re-election convincingly and against the economic odds, President Obama quickly made good on his promise of maintaining taxes as they are for the middle class while raising them on the wealthiest Americans.
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There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.
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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.
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My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.
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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.
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The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.
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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.
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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?
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I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.
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I keep anywhere between 5-10 percent of my net worth in venture ideas.