Kevin O'Leary
Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.Collection: Vision
Life is hard, money doesn't care, your tears don’t add valueCollection: Life Is Hard
My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.Collection: Order
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.Collection: Successful
The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.Collection: Land
I actually think being an entrepreneur is a state of mind. If you're going to be an entrepreneur, my thesis is that you have to sacrifice everything for some period in your life to be successful. You have to be myopic and completely focused and unbalanced in every way. Once you've achieved success, you're free to do whatever you like.Collection: Successful
The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life.Collection: People
Don’t let the dark clouds of greed confuse youCollection: Dark
Downturns are the best time to start businesses because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.Collection: Mean
Do you want to be rich or not? Let's get focused on that, buddyCollection: Want
We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentrationCollection: Exercise
If I don't deliver a majority mandate in 2019, fire me.Collection: Fire
You'd rather own gold; not the minerCollection: Gold
Canada has always been ready for the truth. I think they actually appreciate a politician or anybody as a leader who tells the truth.Collection: Thinking
I have no baggage in politics. I've never been a politician. I don't owe anybody anything.Collection: Baggage
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.Collection: Kids
You either make it illegal, in which case you support a huge underground economy or you tax it within the limits people can afford.Collection: Marijuana
Imagine bringing Canada into a trillion-and-a-half of deficit. That's insane.Collection: Insane
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.Collection: Winning
I don't think spending time in Ottawa is a good use of my time as the leader.Collection: Thinking
I want to spend my time at colleges and universities.Collection: College
I'm alarmed at what's happening in Canada. I'm vested here.Collection: Canada
I'm not going to leave Canada, I'm going to fix it.Collection: Canada
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.Collection: Party
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.Collection: Country
People say that I can't speak French. C'est pas vraiment placé. I'm getting better every day. I just have to keep practising. That's the truth.Collection: Speaks French
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.Collection: Daddy
I have great people working for me now. I surround myself with smart people.Collection: Smart
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.Collection: Fall
The skies were blue when I was coming up. I want my kids to have the same opportunity, if not better, than I had.Collection: Kids
Justin Trudeau is going to elect Kevin O'Leary. All he has to do is keep doing what he is doing.Collection: Kevin
Let's not forget, there are three languages in Canada - English, French, and there's the language of jobs.Collection: Jobs
(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.Collection: Tests
I'm ashamed of what has happened to Canada. And I'm not leaving a $1.5 trillion deficit to my kids. No chance in hell is that happening.Collection: Kids
What I'm trying to do is immerse myself.Collection: Trying
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.Collection: Mistake
I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.Collection: Way
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.Collection: Stupid
When I start something I bring my A-game - I assume I'm going to win.Collection: Winning
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.Collection: Energy