Quotes from Kevin O'Leary

My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

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

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.

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don't handle like a Porsche.

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.

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.

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

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

You can't win a majority mandate unless you get back 60 per cent of the votes between the ages of 18 and 35. It's a fact.

A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.

I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.

There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.

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.

You can't regulate a soul into a business.

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.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

I'm ashamed of what has happened to Canada. And I'm not leaving a $1.5 trillion deficit to my kids. No chance in hell is that happening.

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

Money equals freedom.