Kevin OLeary Quotes

Vision is nothing without a plan to execute it.

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

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.

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.

My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Money equals freedom.

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

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.

Don’t let the dark clouds of greed confuse you

Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas

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

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

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.

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

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.

You can't regulate a soul into a business.

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

We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration