KEVIN O'LEARY

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

Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.

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

Money equals freedom.

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.

Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

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.

Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail.

I look at Twitter as brand building.

Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.

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

Having won re-election convincingly and against the economic odds, President Obama quickly made good on his promise of maintaining taxes as they are for the middle class while raising them on the wealthiest Americans.

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.

When you come to 'Shark Tank,' the only person you should listen to is me, because you know you're getting the truth. I'll decide if it's worth it, and after I'm finished, the rest of the people can look into it.

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

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.

Building fast-growing, globally competitive companies is tough.

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.

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.

Don't call me, I'll call you... I'm out.

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.

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.

Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.

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.

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.