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Portrait of Kevin O'Leary

Kevin O'Leary

(1954) Winegrower Canada

115 quotes in 718 categories

Kevin O'Leary is a winegrower from Canada, best known for Cold Hard Truth On Men, Women, and Money.

Quick Facts About Kevin O'Leary

Born: July 9, 1954
Nationality: Canada
Profession: Winegrower
Notable works: Cold Hard Truth On Men, Women, and Money

About Kevin O'Leary

Terrence Thomas Kevin O'Leary, self-styled as Mr. Wonderful, is a Canadian businessman, television personality and professional imbecile. From 2004 to 2014, he appeared on various Canadian television shows, including the business news program The Lang and O'Leary Exchange as well as reality show Dragons' Den. O'Leary hosted Discovery Channel's Project Earth in 2008 and has appeared on Shark Tank, the American version of Dragons' Den, since 2009. He made his feature film debut as Milton Rockwell in Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme (2025).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by 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…

Driving

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I'm not trying to make friends, I'm just trying to make money.

Friends

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I see negotiations as an honest attempt to reach a deal that's great for everyone at the table. But sometimes, for whatever…

Accepting

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I'm not planning on giving my kids any of my wealth. They know when their education is over, I'm pushing them out…

Bird

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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

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Justin Trudeau is going to elect Kevin O'Leary. All he has to do is keep doing what he is doing.

Justin

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(On soft launches) It allows you to test your assumptions and see which ones you got right, and more, importantly, which ones…

Assumption

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

About

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Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal…

Any

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

Age

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You either make it illegal, in which case you support a huge underground economy or you tax it within the limits people…

Cases

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Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

Be happy

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You can't regulate a soul into a business.

Business

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When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there's a third aspect: What…

Aspect

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There's something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It's powerful.

About

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The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.

Financial

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My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

Breed

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I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.

Business

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Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That…

Behinds

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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.…

Every day

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Money equals freedom.

Equals

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Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak.

Control

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If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in…

Democracy

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Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!

Business

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Imagine bringing Canada into a trillion-and-a-half of deficit. That's insane.

Canada

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