Top 100 O Leary Quotes

#1. The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #14357
#2. Ella, just stay here. Stay safe."
"Safe," Ella repeated. "Ella likes being safe. Safety in numbers. Safety deposit boxes. Ella will go with Tyson."
"What?" Percy said. "Oh ... fine, whatever. Just don't get hurt. And Mrs. O'Leary - "
"ROOOF."
"How do you feel about pulling a chariot?

Rick Riordan

O Leary Quotes #40668
#3. I don't mind rude people. I want people that I can make money with, so if their executional abilities are good, and they're arrogant and rude, I don't care.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #47943
#4. We think they should pay €60 for being so stupid.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #52339
#5. The word Styx got her [Mrs. O'Leary, the hellhound] excited. She probably thought I meant sticks. She jumped a few times, chased her tail just to teach it who was boss, and then calmed down enough for me to push Nico onto her back.

Rick Riordan

O Leary Quotes #57318
#6. And when you give up your dreams, an important part of who you are dies with them, and so does that which makes you unique.

Jeff O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #65818
#7. The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #69187
#8. The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #102535
#9. Don't let the dark clouds of greed confuse you

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #107069
#10. You'd rather own gold; never own the miner.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #109077
#11. Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #111633
#12. I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #118723
#13. I'm not trying to make friends, I'm just trying to make money.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #120603
#14. There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #127353
#15. You'd rather own gold; not the miner

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #131302
#16. They're only askin' you to do one thing. From what Rogue says, you ain't exactly reluctant."
"F**k myself into a coma. Sure, I can do that. Then what?"
"Uh, wait an hour?

Michelle O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #133456
#17. Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.

Denis Leary

O Leary Quotes #151779
#18. There's something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It's powerful.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #154956
#19. Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #172698
#20. Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #177391
#21. Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

Jean O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #200631
#22. People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #241248
#23. 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.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #244464
#24. If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #257620
#25. When you look at the number of stupid people who have succeeded in business, you clearly don't have to be very bright. Business is all about getting your sales up and your costs down, the bit in the middle is profit.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #284806
#26. 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.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #299919
#27. I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.

Rachel Cohn

O Leary Quotes #303047
#28. I should get the Nobel peace prize - screw Bono.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #304320
#29. Homesick? For a village in the middle of nowhere? Where there's no work and everyone

Susanne O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #311198
#30. Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #322407
#31. I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #322509
#32. Money has no grey areas. You either make it or you lose it.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #354464
#33. Mrs O'Leary said, 'Tis the child I feel sorry for', and all the people looked up and saw me, so I looked especially sad, I expect the experience will give me a trauma at some stage in the future. I'm all right at the moment, but you never know.

Sue Townsend

O Leary Quotes #356247
#34. Do you want to be rich or not? Let's get focused on that, buddy

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #366041
#35. The practical reality of managing cars in the family - I do 36-month leases. I think they're horrible investments. And you want to give them back after their warranty is over.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #371111
#36. When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there's a third aspect: What you feel in your gut.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #443866
#37. Are we going to say sorry for our lack of customer service? Absolutely not.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #458466
#38. 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.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #463246
#39. She's coming here with Aer Lingus.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #488927
#40. Don't cry for money. It never cries for you.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #504826
#41. It's literally murder on the dancefloor.

Dermot O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #506476
#42. A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #507231
#43. 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.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #513254
#44. Don't call me, I'll call you ... I'm out.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #516026
#45. If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain clothing. Talk about lack of civil rights - I'm sorry, I'm pulling you right off the street, and we're giving you clothes that you're going to be O.K. in.

Denis Leary

O Leary Quotes #518206
#46. Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #536099
#47. Mrs. O' Leary is my pet. I couldn't let you stick a sword in her rump, now, could I? That might've scared her.

Rick Riordan

O Leary Quotes #547367
#48. Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside - but let's get back to reality.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #560317
#49. Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.

Billy Joel

O Leary Quotes #566117
#50. Get back to work you slacker or you're fired.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #574252
#51. As far as I'm concerned, Twitter has wiped out Facebook. I'm done with Facebook.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #587940
#52. So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #589205
#53. I came into business to make money, I make no apology for that. I wanted to make a lot of money but after the first £50million or £100million, it became less about making money and more about having fun.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #598008
#54. My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #600159
#55. It reminds me of two drunks leaning on each other.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #616265
#56. Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook - BOOM, BOOM, BOOM - which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail.
I couldn't help but smile.

Rick Riordan

O Leary Quotes #617690
#57. I'd rather invest in an entrepreneur who has failed before than one who assumes success from day one.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #618231
#58. I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #619642
#59. Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #621390
#60. I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #651195
#61. I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #665334
#62. Not much of a childhood, Cass. When did you get to play?"
With a frown, she said, "I played."
"You took apart your robot dog.

Michelle O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #686255
#63. All flights are fuelled with Leprechaun wee and my bullshit!

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #686290
#64. People say the customer is always right, but you know what - they're not. Sometimes they are wrong and they need to be told so.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #709151
#65. ...because everything you've heard about Hollywood is true. Even the lies are true....

Patti O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #722212
#66. If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #723042
#67. Television is the most interesting hobby I've ever had.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #742367
#68. You either make it illegal, in which case you support a huge underground economy or you tax it within the limits people can afford.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #745119
#69. We choose to vibrantly go about life, soak it up, embrace it, and celebrate it, or we choose not to. No one else can make this decision for us.

John O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #756136
#70. Romantic Ireland's dead and gone
It's with O' Leary in the grave
(September 1913)

W.B.Yeats

O Leary Quotes #756572
#71. I was a young lad when I was growing up.

David O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #761565
#72. It's a great incentive to work long hours. I limit the holiday to two weeks and then get the hell back to the office. If I had my choice I wouldn't take holidays but my wife insists on time with the kids. That's enough. Prior to getting married I never took a holiday.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #763532
#73. Downturns are the best time to start businesses, because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #767812
#74. We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #780024
#75. Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #790045
#76. One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #791864
#77. I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

Jean O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #793809
#78. If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

Jean O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #805441
#79. 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.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #812882
#80. (On soft launches) It allows you to test your assumptions and see which ones you got right, and more, importantly, which ones you got wrong. A big hard launch is expensive. Getting even one thing wrong can force you to go out of business.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #818479
#81. Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #824066
#82. The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some French bloody unemployed republic.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #839428
#83. I like to breed players that attack people.

David O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #843504
#84. I'm proud to be on the CBC and to see the management here represents both sides of every story. This is what's unique about the new CBC: you get a Kevin O'Leary on it when five years ago you wouldn't.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #846661
#85. 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.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #849910
#86. All we do is bring the debate from both sides, and let you as a viewer decide where you want to end up on the issue. That's very important. That's exactly what happens in 'Redemption Inc.'

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #863573
#87. Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #870197
#88. 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.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #872305
#89. 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.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #876505
#90. I think George Bush is one of the most duplicitous presidents we've ever had.

Jean O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #897877
#91. Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #903006
#92. University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #904772
#93. Do we carry rich people on our flights? Yes, I flew on one this morning and I'm very rich.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #908877
#94. 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.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #912625
#95. I'm here with Howard Millar and Michael Cawley, our two deputy chief executives. But they're presently making love in the gentleman's toilets, such is their excitement at today's results.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #924964
#96. The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #935701
#97. Do you know what vengence is, Tim? It is a dark mirror in which we cannot see ourselves.

Patrick O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #954457
#98. We're not afraid of who we are. We're afraid of who we think we're not.

John O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #969130
#99. We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration

Kevin O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #986117
#100. We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.

Michael O'Leary

O Leary Quotes #1012507

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