Kevin O’Leary: Top 2 Financial Rules From My Mom That I Still Follow

Kevin O’Leary: Top 2 Financial Rules From My Mom That I Still Follow

Gabrielle Olya  Sun, August 24, 2025 GOBankingRates

“Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary has built his wealth through entrepreneurship and savvy investing, but he credits his mother for setting him on the right financial path. There are several money lessons his mother taught him throughout his lifetime that still shape how he approaches finances today.

Here are two of the financial rules O’Leary learned from his mom that he thinks everyone should follow.

Keep Your Own Financial Accounts — Even in Marriage

When you get married, you may want to merge all of your finances — but O’Leary learned from his mother that this is not the smartest approach.

“My mother taught me a lot about financial independence,” he told GOBankingRates while discussing his partnership with HelloPrenup, an online prenuptial agreement platform. “She was married twice but kept a secret account from both of her husbands her entire life.”

O’Leary said that his mother started saving 15% of her pay when she was very young and kept that money completely sequestered during her marriages.

“She helped my brother and I through school [with that money],” O’Leary said. “She really believed that in a marriage, both spouses should have their own financial identity. They should never give that up because you don’t know it’s going to happen in marriage.”

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