Kevin O'Leary shares invaluable secrets on entrepreneurship, business, money and life.
Can you make millions just by "visualizing yourself rich" as some business prophets suggest? Don't buy it, says Kevin O'Leary. If you want to be a successful entrepreneur and amass wealth, you're going to have to work for it. But the good news is: with the right guidance, focus and perseverance, you can turn entrepreneurial vision into lucrative reality and have the personal freedom that only wealth can buy.
Kevin O'Leary would know. The much-feared and revered Dragon on the immensely popular show Dragons' Den (and Shark Tank in the U.S.) started his company in his basement with a $10,000 loan from his financially savvy mother. A few years later, Kevin sold that company for more than four billion dollars. In this compelling, candid and, above all else, brutally honest business memoir, Kevin provides engaging, practical advice and lessons that will give anyone a distinct competitive edge.
KEVIN O'LEARY is one of North America's most successful business entrepreneurs, as well as a star on CBC's Dragons' Den and ABC's Shark Tank. Kevin founded and built SoftKey (later The Learning Company), the global leader in educational kids' software, and negotiated its sale to Mattel for $4.2 billion in 1999. Since then, he has successfully co-founded, funded, and sold numerous companies in a range of industries, including storage, entertainment, and finance. Today, Kevin is the Chairman of O'Leary Funds, a $1.7 billion mutual fund company. He is also the co-host of CBC's Lang & O'Leary Exchange and Discovery Channel's Project Earth, and the host CBC's new reality series, Kevin O'Leary's Redemption Inc. SPEND THE INTEREST, NEVER THE PRINCIPAL- AND OTHER LESSONS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME
Why A$$holes Get Rich
It was the fall of 2006, and the place was Pearson International Airport in Toronto. I was with my wife, Linda, and our kids, Savannah and Trevor. We had just flown in from our place in Boston to hit the Toronto International Film Festival. I had to use the men's room, so I asked my family to wait outside for a second. While washing my hands and minding my own business, I could sense next to me a stranger turning and staring at my profile. He was doing it every few seconds.
These were the early days of Dragons' Den. If you tuned in to the CBC show back then, you'd have seen five well-dressed venture capitalists shifting around uncomfortably in mismatched chairs in some anonymous warehouse in downtown Toronto.
