Kevin O'Leary
Kevin O'Leary
Terence Thomas Kevin O'Learyis a Canadian businessman, investor, journalist, writer, financial commentator and television personality. He is co-founder and Chairman of O'Leary Funds and the co-founder of SoftKey. He previously served as a commentator on Canada's CBC Television and CBC News Network, on the programme The Lang and O'Leary Exchange and hosted Redemption Inc. He is an investor on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank and was a venture capitalist "Dragon" on CBC Television's Dragons' Den...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth9 July 1954
CityMontreal, Canada
CountryCanada
I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas
The biggest mistake entrepreneurs can make is trying to do everything themselves. They usually blow up when they try. I did an inventory of every deal I've ever done and it turned out that every single deal I made money on was a partnership, and every colossal failure, where I lost millions, was something I tried to do by myself.
I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.
I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.
I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.
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.
Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.
Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.
My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.
I look at Twitter as brand building.
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,
We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration
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.