Kevin O'Leary Quotes

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.
Kevin O'Leary

Money, Home, War

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.
Kevin O'Leary

Truth, Wonderful, Honest

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.
Kevin O'Leary

School, Down, Path

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.
Kevin O'Leary

Truth, Bad, Tough

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.
Kevin O'Leary

War, Business, Fear

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.
Kevin O'Leary

Money, Trying, Friends

Don't call me, I'll call you... I'm out.
Kevin O'Leary

There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don't handle like a Porsche.
Kevin O'Leary

Experience, Powerful, Unique

There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.
Kevin O'Leary

Facts, Side, Correct

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.
Kevin O'Leary

Success, Hate, Mother

All we do is bring the debate from both sides, and let you as a viewer decide where you want to end up on the issue. That's very important. That's exactly what happens in 'Redemption Inc.'
Kevin O'Leary

End, Important, Both

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.
Kevin O'Leary

Good, Bad, Opinion

Don't cry about money, it never cries for you.
Kevin O'Leary

Money, Cry, Cries

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.
Kevin O'Leary

Age, School, Remember

I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
Kevin O'Leary

Business, Book, Calling

I'm proud to be on the CBC and to see the management here represents both sides of every story. This is what's unique about the new CBC: you get a Kevin O'Leary on it when five years ago you wouldn't.
Kevin O'Leary

Proud, Here, Story

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.
Kevin O'Leary

Family, Car, Fun

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.
Kevin O'Leary

Book, Give, Birth

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.
Kevin O'Leary

Work, Time, Society

If you want a friend, buy a dog.
Kevin O'Leary

Friend, Dog, Buy

Money equals freedom.
Kevin O'Leary

Money, Freedom, Equals

My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.
Kevin O'Leary

Thought, Fashion, Shoes

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.
Kevin O'Leary

Through, Rich, Stand

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.
Kevin O'Leary

Family, Reality, Give

When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.'
Kevin O'Leary

Family, Live, Down

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Businessman

Born: July 9, 1954

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