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
The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.
You'd rather own gold; not the miner
Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.
I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.
My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.
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.
Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak.
Television is the most interesting hobby I've ever had.
If you want a friend, buy a dog.
Money equals freedom.
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.
(On soft launches) It allows you to test your assumptions and see which ones you got right, and more, importantly, which ones you got wrong. A big hard launch is expensive. Getting even one thing wrong can force you to go out of business.
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 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.