I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas

Justin Trudeau is going to elect Kevin O'Leary. All he has to do is keep doing what he is doing.

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

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.

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.