Shark Tank

“I think that being dyslexic, I always say eight of the 12 sharks are dyslexic.”

“If you have two million dollars in the bank, and you have your hat in your hand asking for money, and you have no no, you don't plan on closing a shark, you took that slot away from a family who risked everything, who their kids are not going to college, they'…”

“The pitch that doesn't work for sure is the people that immediately come in and they just, everything is hypothetical and they assume. They don't have a history of things, and they go, the number one thing that you can say that I immediately check out, or I gi…”

“You're only gonna have about 96 people that air. A thousand people will see the producers and 40,000 people applied.”

“After we do the deal, you know in a handshake, I walk over to them and I send, I give them a piece of paper, very short one, and say, take it to your attorney. And it says on there something like, you know You're not gonna publicly shop this deal for another y…”

“I spent about 750,000 dollars in attorney fees alone just to look at the deal. Now I put it through a VC software, it cost me 10,000 dollars to do everything.”

“An average pitch is one hour long, maybe half an hour to an hour long. 16 cameras shooting it. So an hour pitch is 16 hours of footage for you to see eight minutes.”

“And I've advised every single living president till today, they haven't asked me for money, I can walk into any room, and they know who I am, and my name, I can open any company I want to, and I can walk into any room I want to, because my name goes in the roo…”

“Well, I tell everybody Whenever I can, that I'm the lead shark with the most successful investment in history, shark tank history on all the shark tanks that exist around the world.”

“Takes us six to nine months to close the deals. We close about 60% of the deals.”

“You know, I think two out of 10 is winners. I think we have three out of 10 because we have a baked in commercial.”

“And then, you know, being the first person to have gotten a deal to then be a shark and sitting on both sides and seeing both sides of the curtain, I guess, was really cool.”

“So we did our deal back in 2000, basically 19, 2018. It was with Brohan Oza. It was 400,000 for 20%.”

“Pete Davidson is an investor. It was a couple. I like him. I like him. But they sent him socks, so they did what I did, like, let people taste it, let people get, you know, see it. Pete put on that sock, and it is the most comfortable sock you'll ever wear in …”

“Socks and sponges. Scrub Daddy. Scrub Daddy. Yeah, the two highest performing Shark Tank investments ever.”

“The number one mistake people make when they value their company is they value it based on what they would like, not what the business is worth.”

“They called me up a bunch of years ago when it was first starting, and they said, well, you auditioned for Shark Tank. We want you to be one of the judges on Shark Tank. And I said, well, what do you think? And they said, well, you would be the nasty judge. An…”