Kevin O'Leary Quotes
The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.
O'Leary, Kevin. Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life. Doubleday Canada, 2011.
When earning money is the primary driver of a business, that business has come under the control of people who no longer have the vision, interests or focus of the founders and the people who originally made it what it was. Making money is an important part of making a successful company, but if that is all, then unless one is an investor, there is no great advantage to becoming a customer. All of the great new companies started with a vision that may have included making money but went far beyond that.
Terence Thomas Kevin O'Leary is a Canadian businessman, author, politician, and television personality. From 2004 to 2014, he appeared on various Canadian television shows, including the business news programmes SqueezePlay and The Lang and O'Leary Exchange, as well as the reality television shows Dragons' Den and Redemption Inc. In 2008, he appeared on Discovery Channel's Project Earth. Since 2009, he has appeared on Shark Tank, the American version of Dragons' Den.