Kevin O Leary Quotes
Kevin O Leary Quotes
Kevin O Leary Quotes
I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.
Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!
The only reason to do business is to make money; thatโs the only reason for doing business.
Business is war. I go out there; I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking weโre going to win.
You canโt regulate a soul into a business.
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.
Kevin OโLeary Quotes on Making Money
The only reason to do business is to make money; thatโs the only reason for doing business.
Iโm not trying to make friends; Iโm trying to make money.
Kevin OโLeary Quotes about Business
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.
Business is war. I go out there; I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking weโre going to win.
All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.
Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!
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Kevin OโLeary Quotes on Economy
Trump has been very, very open and clear on what heโs going to do. Heโs going to make the U.S. very competitive on taxes, corporate and personal. Heโs 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.
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. Thatโs a very, very scary prospect. You canโt 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 donโt go up? Thatโs insane. Thatโs irresponsible. Thatโs stupid.
You either make it illegal, in which case you support a huge underground economy or you tax it within the limits people can afford.
Kevin OโLeary Quotes about Opportunity
The skies were blue when I was coming up. I want my kids to have the same opportunity, if not better, than I had.
Basically, if youโre 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.
So much of life is a negotiation โ so even if youโre not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
Kevin OโLeary Quotes on Cars
Iโm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. Iโve driven a lot of cars โ sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But thereโs nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.
The practical reality of managing cars in the family โ I do 36-month leases. I think theyโre horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over.
We have to change public perception of ex-convicts. Most Canadians donโt realize that when you come out of prison, youโre a complete pariah. You canโt get a car loan or money from a bank to start a business. So most end up back in prison within 24 months. Itโs just so wrong. We need to fix this problem.
Kevin OโLeary Quotes on Age
You canโt win a majority mandate unless you get back 60 per cent of the votes between the ages of 18 and 35. Itโs a fact.
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 hasnโt been a Conservative candidate in 15 years that ever got on a campus anywhere here in any Canadian university and wasnโt thrown stones at.
I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.
Kevin OโLeary Quotes on Negotiation
So much of life is a negotiation โ so even if youโre not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
I see negotiations as an honest attempt to reach a deal thatโs great for everyone at the table. But sometimes, for whatever reason, thatโs impossible. You need to accept that possibility-donโt 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, donโt come back.
Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can.
Kevin OโLeary Quotes about Investment
The practical reality of managing cars in the family โ I do 36-month leases. I think theyโre horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over.
I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.
Kevin OโLeary Quotes about Giving
If a man could give birth it would be to a book โ itโs an 18-month gestation period.
If you put a woman in prison for four years when sheโs young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.
The practical reality of managing cars in the family โ I do 36-month leases. I think theyโre horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over.
Iโm not planning on giving my kids any of my wealth. They know when their education is over, Iโm pushing them out of the nest. The bird you see dead under the nest is the one who didnโt think about the future.
Kevin OโLeary Quotes Opportunities to practice
So much of life is a negotiation โ so even if youโre not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
Kevin OโLeary Quotes Articulate your Idea
What are the most important qualities that make a successful entrepreneur? The ability to communicate. The ability to express your idea with certainty. Thatโs 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. โฆ Articulate your idea in 90 seconds or less.
Kevin OโLeary Quotes about Home
Hereโs how I think of my money โ as soldiers โ I send them out to war every day. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so thereโs more of them.
Until Americans feel that their core asset โ their homes โ are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.
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