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Kevin O'Leary

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2651 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

And I listened to all the feeds from around the world from business cable and BBC and CNBC and Fox and CNN and get the seven stories of the day.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

And while I'm listening in that hour and 20 minutes, the phone starts ringing, interrupts the feed, no problem.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

And every day there's a story of total depression.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

Total woe and destruction for one of my companies.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

Oh no, I just got sued.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

Oh, I just got kicked out of Walmart.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

Oh, I just this, I just that.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

It's a disaster.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

And then 20 minutes later, it's total euphoria.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

Oh, I just got a $100 million offer for our business and you own 30% of it.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

You have the right of first refusal.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

What do you want to do?

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

That's in the same hour.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

And so you got to get used to the ups and downs in the founder's mindset that are going to happen to you.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

The total euphoria to the total depression

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

And that's all in one day.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

And so those are the people you want to invest in that can handle it, that just can take the hit, figure out a way around it and move on.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

And that's about a third of the population.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

The other two thirds are going to work for them.

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Risk, Reward, and Royalty: Kevin O’Leary Unplugged

And there's nothing dishonorable about that.