Kevin O'Leary
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.
You can't regulate a soul into a business.
If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.
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.
I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.
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.'
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.
If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.
You'd rather own gold; never own the miner.
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.
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.
Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!
Don't cry for money. It never cries for you.
I don't mind rude people. I want people that I can make money with, so if their executional abilities are good, and they're arrogant and rude, I don't care.
I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.
Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.
Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are ready for that change.
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.
As far as I'm concerned, Twitter has wiped out Facebook. I'm done with Facebook.
For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.
I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.
I do not own a single security anywhere that doesn't pay a dividend, and I formed a mutual-fund company with that very simple philosophy.