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by joering2 5228 days ago
I really wouldnt get offended by Kevin or anyone elses comment. Business is called business until we sleep in one bed together. Otherwise we dont have to like each other. Sure its great when you love your business partners but I dont find it that big of a deal, especially when it came from Kevin's mouth (as with any other show they put totally character-contrast cast to make things spicy - Kevin vs Barbara, i.e.)

You have to learn about him to understand what kind of deals he is performing. He is amazing on selling anything to everyone even if its ice to Eskimo. In his example he had some huge, hm poisoned water delivered here and there :) [1] But I give him credit for fucking up software deal to Matel and having huge balls to being proud of it and shoving it in everyones face (at least on the show: his favorite quote was something like "millions of dollars? thats a rounding error, a statistical noise in deals i have been doing!"). Don't get me wrong: the guy is a genius at making money and just proves that you will get dirty by making plenty of money. I would like to live his live, sure, but definitely wouldn't like to die as Kevin, given you believe in things like God, Heaven and Hell.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_OLeary_(entrepreneur)#Con...

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I knew Kevin wouldn't invest in something like Rejection Therapy. I didn't expect any Dragon to "get it" [1], but he was the salivating pitbull in the room I had to watch out for anyway.

He preoccupied a majority of my concerns. I was right to.

And as to your other point, the Bible verse "what profiteth a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his own soul" comes to mind. There is hope for everyone though.

[1] Heck, my own flesh and blood parents were baffled by the concept for the longest time.