“A video interview with Andy Jacob on The DotCom Magazine Entrepreneur Spotlight really matters. It gets the message out. It’s worked for us on Shark Tank, and you should try it too.”
-Kevin O’Leary, AKA Mr. Wonderful, ABC Shark Tank
Shark Tank’s Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O’Leary talks about the Robbie Cabral Interview on DotCom Magazine. Robbie Cabral, the CEO and CEO of BenjiLock, was recently interview as part of The DotCom Magazine Entrepreneur Spotlight Series. Robbie closed one of the most famous deals in Shark Tank history with Mr. Wondaful for his finger print technology padlock, BenjiLock. Kevin O’Leary was born to a middle class family in 1954. The combination of Kevin’s mother’s family heritage as merchants and his father’s Irish charisma truly meant that O’Leary was born for business. Kevin learned most of his business intuition from his mother. She taught him key business and financial insights from an early age. These became Kevin’s core philosophies, and the pillars upon which he would one day build his empire.
Kevin’s approach to business went through major changes as a teenager. During his second day on the job at a local ice cream shop, his boss came into the front of the store where Kevin was scooping ice cream. She looked at Kevin and asked him to perform a task that he wasn’t expecting. What happened next had a profound effect on Kevin, one that stayed with him for the rest of his life.
As a university student, Kevin’s innate business sense led him along several different paths including some very unusual, very entrepreneurial ways of making a profit.
Not long after he finished his MBA, Kevin had a meeting that changed his life forever. He met a man who had a strange idea for a software product: an idea with huge, high-profit potential that Kevin immediately recognized.
After years of ups, downs, sacrifices, challenges, and lessons learned, not to mention a critical phone call that nearly cost him everything, the opportunity that Kevin saw eventually turned into a computer software giant that was acquired for more than $4 billion dollars.
After his extraordinary success at the software company he founded and a difficult period of obstacles and legal disputes, Kevin eventually found himself on television, quickly becoming a sought-after host and personality on a range of shows including Discovery’s Project Earth, CBC’s Dragon Den, and ABC’s Shark Tank.
Kevin has since launched O’Leary Funds, an investment fund company; O’Leary Fine Wines; and a best-selling book series on financial literacy.
In 2014, Kevin founded O’ Leary Financial Group, a group of brands and services that share Kevin’s guiding principles of honesty, directness, convenience, and above all, great value.
Kevin O’Leary, also known as “Mr. Wonderful” from Shark Tank, is known for his sharp wit and often blunt statements. Here are 20 of his most famous quotes:
“Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my soldiers into battle unprepared.”
“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’m not trying to make friends. You want a friend, buy a dog.”
“There is a discipline required as an investor: never fail to act when you know you should.”
“I like to take risks. That’s how I make money. But they are calculated risks.”
“Don’t cry about money, it never cries for you.”
“If you want a friend, buy a dog. I’m just trying to make money.”
“The only reason to do business is to make money; that’s the premise of business.”
“When you make a decision, you have to live with it for the rest of your life.”
“I’m not interested in companies that don’t make money.”
“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.”
“Don’t cry for money. It never cries for you.”
“I have a rule: If you’re not in my world and don’t know what I’m doing, then don’t tell me what to do.”
“The truth is, you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.”
“Here’s how I think of my money—as soldiers—I send them out to war every day. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there’s more of them.”
“I don’t care what you think. I’m going to tell you what I think, and that’s the way it is.”
“I have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and the drive, but they are missing the most important piece of the puzzle—discipline.”
“I don’t care about your past. I care about your future. Show me how you’re going to make money.”
“Life is about money, and the rest is conversation.”
“You can’t achieve success if you don’t embrace failure.”
