Kevin O'Leary

it gets prickly, but you're not trying to win friends in business.

You're trying to have people respect you.

And the way they respect you is you deliver results.

I do business with a lot of assholes that are not nice people, but boy, are they productive.

And that's why I'm doing business with them.

You know, they don't come to my cookout, but I do business with them and I risk money with them and I invest in them because they deliver results.

Yeah, it's not.

It can't make everybody happy.

That's not what the game is about.

The game is setting a goal and achieving it.

And along the way, there's going to be some people you offend.

Well, that's too bad.

Well, there's something I've learned about in teaching cohorts of young.

I'm an executive fellow at Harvard, so I teach the HBA, the MBA, and the executive program, and I'm honored to do that.

You know, my son is going there right now and he won't come to my classes.

He doesn't want that shark tank stuff.

You know, I don't blame him.

I get it.

But what I've learned, if you look at a class, you look at the cohort, let's say there's 240 people in it.

A third of them are going to be consultants and they're going to live a life of mediocrity.