Kevin O'Leary's dad told him he wasn't talented enough to pursue his passion-that advice made him a centi-millionaire
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"When I graduated from high school, I wanted to be a photographer. I had my own lab downstairs and I was doing all the things I loved to do. And he [O'Leary's father] said: 'You're not good enough and you'll starve to death. You should go to college and get a degree.' I went on to do an MBA, which ended up being a very important tool for me later."
"I was trying to get back to the thing I loved which was photography and production, and make money doing it. There was that science and that art coming together in my life."
"Things happen in life, you don't know why, and you only get to look at them in retrospect a long time later. But all of that stuff made me what I am today-the good, the bad and the ugly. I wouldn't change a thing."
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