People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That’s what I’m attempting to do.
If you want a friend, buy a dog.
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.
If a man could give birth it would be to a book – it’s an 18-month gestation period.
I’m proud to be on the CBC and to see the management here represents both sides of every story. This is what’s unique about the new CBC: you get a Kevin O’Leary on it when five years ago you wouldn’t.
I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.
You either make it illegal, in which case you support a huge underground economy or you tax it within the limits people can afford.
I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.
So much of life is a negotiation – so even if you’re not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.
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.
We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration.
You’d rather own gold; not the miner.
I look at Twitter as brand building.
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.
The practical reality of managing cars in the family – I do 36-month leases. I think they’re horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over.
Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas.
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.
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.
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.