Quotes from Kevin O'Leary

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 think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.

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

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.

Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside - but let's get back to reality.

Don't call me, I'll call you... I'm out.

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.

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.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

Life is hard, money doesn't care, your tears don't add value

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I have no baggage in politics. I've never been a politician. I don't owe anybody anything.

Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas

I have great people working for me now. I surround myself with smart people.

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.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

Don't cry for money. It never cries for you.

If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's 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.

So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.