Kevin O'Leary says Steve Jobs was one of the brutal guys in business. O'Leary was selling educational software to Apple in the late 80s. The brand manager at Apple wanted a $12 million research budget to survey teachers on what updates they wanted. Jobs exploded on her: "They don't know what they want until I tell them what they want." O'Leary pushed back. Called him an asshole. Said she had a point and maybe they should listen to the market. Jobs turned to him: "Is Apple not your number one OEM? Are you not making more money with us at higher margins than any other channel you have? Shut up and go do the work." It sounds like arrogance. But Jobs was right about the outcome every single time. He was right about the Mac. Right about iPod. Right about iPhone. Right about every product people said nobody asked for. The lesson O'Leary took away: The truly great product people don't survey the market. They understand something about human desire that the market hasn't articulated yet. And they execute on that vision relentlessly. That's a moat no competitor has been able to replicate in 40 years of trying.

Kevin O'Leary says the biggest investing mistake you can make in life is worrying about taxes "The fact that you have to worry about taxes is a wonderful thing, it means you're making money" "But to say, 'Oh, I don't want to sell a stock that's now 11% of my portfolio because I don't want to take the tax hit,' you will pay a brutal price for that" "You will have a massive correction, you won't have taken any gains, and you will hurt yourself immensely"

Kevin Hart says it's boring having money by yourself "I don't want it all. I don't want all the f*cking money. It's boring having money by yourself" "You do sh*t and nobody else can do it with you. They can't come. So if you don't create things for people to roll with you, it's lonely there" "That's why my circle around me, they're not hanger-oners. It's about to earn. They're not given"

Kevin O'Leary says a $1,000 credit card is all you need to build credit "Even though I don't endorse credit cards, it's very hard to advance your credit rating without having one" "So it's good to get a credit card, put maybe a $1,000 limit on it, and then start paying it off. Use $200 a month and pay it off every month" "I told my son, 'As soon as you get one, put $50 bucks on the card and pay it off.' Now he's got a pristine credit rating and he's only ever put a few thousand bucks through the card" "Everybody should understand that there's no way to game that system. You've got to establish a credit rating or you can't borrow"

Kevin O’Leary says the growing backlash against AI data centers may not be entirely organic. “Someone is paying for this. They’re organizing it. They’re funding it. They’re spreading the message,” he said, suggesting outside interests could be driving the opposition. O’Leary has pointed the finger at China, arguing it would benefit from slowing the buildout of infrastructure needed to power America’s AI industry. “Why wouldn’t China want to stop us from building the infrastructure needed to win the AI race?” he said. At the same time, many people living near proposed data centers say their concerns have nothing to do with politics or foreign influence. They only worry about higher energy use, water consumption, environmental impacts, and how these facilities could affect their communities and their bills of course