Kevin O’Leary is a Canadian-Irish businessman and is the co-founder of O’Leary Funds and SoftKey.
He is also a well known television personality and best known for being an investor on Shark Tank.
What I like about Kevin O’Leary aka Mr. Wonderful is that he’s just so unapologetic about being himself and what he believes. He may come off as arrogant on screen but its this level of self-belief that I believe has made him very successful.
Below you’ll find 40 Kevin O’Leary Quotes that will help you be successful.
40 Kevin O’Leary Quotes
1. “Here’s how I think of my money – as soldiers – I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there’s more of them.” – Kevin O’Leary
2. “Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!” – Kevin O’Leary
3. “You’d rather own gold; never own the miner.” – Kevin O’Leary
4. “Money equals freedom.” – Kevin O’Leary
5. “I have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and even the work ethic to succeed – but who are so obsessed with an idea that they don’t see its obvious flaws. Think about that. If you can’t even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on?” – Kevin O’Leary
6. “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 we’re going to win.” – Kevin O’Leary
7. “Don’t cry about money, it never cries for you.” – Kevin O’Leary
8. “I’d rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.” – Kevin O’Leary
9. “I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.” – Kevin O’Leary
10th Kevin O’Leary Quote: “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.” – Kevin O’Leary
11. “Imagine how foolish you’d look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines – and so can you.” – Kevin O’Leary
12. “Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.” – Kevin O’Leary
13. “So much of life is a negotiation – so even if you’re not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.” – Kevin O’Leary
14. “Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.” – Kevin O’Leary
15. “I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.” – Kevin O’Leary
16. “You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.” – Kevin O’Leary
17. “Working 24 hours a day isn’t enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it’s any less, they’re wrong, and they will fail.” – Kevin O’Leary
18. “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 O’Leary
19. “The only reason to do business is to make money; that’s the only reason for doing business.” – Kevin O’Leary
20th Kevin O’Leary Quote: “I’m not trying to make friends, I’m trying to make money.” – Kevin O’Leary
21. “Whatever you pay attention to grows!” – Kevin O’Leary
22. “I like to take risks. That’s how I make money. But they are calculated risks.” – Kevin O’Leary
23. “Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas.” – Kevin O’Leary
24. “Assholes get rich because they’re not afraid to ask for what they want.” – Kevin O’Leary
25. “My partners … taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.” – Kevin O’Leary
26. “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.” – Kevin O’Leary
27. “There is a discipline required as an entrepreneur about working to optimize the business. There is no balance in life as an entrepreneur. You can’t expect to work 9 to 5 that’s never going to happen. You have to expect that it is going to consume your life for a period of time. That’s the downside, but the upside is that you buy yourself freedom in perpetuity.” – Kevin O’Leary
28. “We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration.” – Kevin O’Leary
29. “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.” – Kevin O’Leary
30th Kevin O’Leary Quote: “The best motivator in the world is money and if that doesn’t work try more money.” – Kevin O’Leary
31. “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.” – Kevin O’Leary
32. “Life is hard, money doesn’t care, your tears don’t add value.” – Kevin O’Leary
33. “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.” – Kevin O’Leary
34. “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.” – Kevin O’Leary
35. “I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.” – Kevin O’Leary
36. “Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.” – Kevin O’Leary
37. “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.” – Kevin O’Leary
38. “Don’t let the dark clouds of greed confuse you.” – Kevin O’Leary
39. “When I start something I bring my A-game – I assume I’m going to win.” – Kevin O’Leary
40. “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.” – Kevin O’Leary
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