Herjavec Quotes & Sayings

Cash is the lifeblood of your business. There are very few things in business that will kill you, but running our of cash is one of those things. You can recover from almost any other mistake, but if you run out of cash you're dead. — Robert Herjavec

People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both. — Robert Herjavec

I have my mother's hips. The minute I eat it, it ends up on my hips. — Robert Herjavec

I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America. — Robert Herjavec

Thinking too much leads to paralysis by analysis. It's important to think things through, but many use thinking as a means of avoiding action. — Robert Herjavec

I just don't sleep enough. But I have never met someone very successful who, at the end of their life, says 'I wish I slept more.' — Robert Herjavec

Someday' isn't a real day like Monday or Tuesday; it's just another word for 'never. — Robert Herjavec

If you're emotional and you're great at something, the money will follow. — Robert Herjavec

I like to invest in people that I like to hang with. — Robert Herjavec

The idea of getting a lifetime job, and making $100,000 a year, with benefits, is dead and gone. It's over. And it may never come again. That's a very scary thought for a lot of people. — Robert Herjavec

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear. — Robert Herjavec

Work hard ... have fun ... be nice ... play fair ... dream big. We only get one chance at this life. If you're going to play this game, play it to win. — Robert Herjavec

It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still. — Robert Herjavec

A goal without a deadline is just a dream. — Robert Herjavec

Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus. — Robert Herjavec

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients. — Robert Herjavec

I try to get in one, one-hour spinning class per week. — Robert Herjavec

I'm a very nice guy, but don't mistake my kindness for weakness. — Robert Herjavec

The best way to get past doubt and inexperience is simply action. — Robert Herjavec

I'm intrigued that the same letters from the alphabet are used in the word silent and in the word listen. Perhaps it's evidence that the most important part of listening involves remaining silent. — Robert Herjavec

Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there. — Robert Herjavec

Older cars tend to drive like older cars. That is not for me. — Robert Herjavec

You can't rush the miles. No matter how fast I run, the five miles isn't going to be done in the first five minutes. — Robert Herjavec

I balance my meals. I have never been a big dessert guy. — Robert Herjavec

When I sold my first business, I wanted to do something nice for my dad. I wanted to give my parents a bunch of money, but they wouldn't take anything from me. They were so happy for me; they felt they didn't need money. — Robert Herjavec

Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner. — Robert Herjavec

I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life. — Robert Herjavec

If you're hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. — Robert Herjavec

When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day. — Robert Herjavec

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else. — Robert Herjavec

Work-life balance is one of the biggest misconceptions people have, — Robert Herjavec

when the bullets are flying and the bombs are dropping, the ability to zig and zag is far more valuable than the capacity to figure out the calibre of the bullets and what kinds of planes are flying overhead. — Robert Herjavec

Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time. — Robert Herjavec

You have to have something bigger than you. You have to have a goal that is greater than you. — Robert Herjavec

Be risky at work. Be safe with your investments. — Robert Herjavec

I don't think anyone wakes up and says, 'I want my life to suck today.' — Robert Herjavec

Too much thinking leads to paralysis by analysis. — Robert Herjavec

Of all the people I have met who have achieved a level of economic success similar to m own were driven to realize a dream, but not necessarily to become wealthy. Remember, success is doing what you want to do. — Robert Herjavec

I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2. — Robert Herjavec

I look for the entrepreneur to capture my attention. If you don't come out with a great presentation, you're dead. That's a big red flag, — Robert Herjavec

I don't look at failure as death, I don't look at failure as finality. I just look at it and pick myself up and say 'we shouldn't have done that' and move on. — Robert Herjavec

If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally. — Robert Herjavec

I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on. — Robert Herjavec

Successful businesspeople retain a quality most others not only lack but often fail to comprehend, and that's the unrelenting drive to convert a vision into reality. They are driven to realize this goal in a manner that appears to defy logic among others who lack this drive. — Robert Herjavec

What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible. — Robert Herjavec

I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars. — Robert Herjavec

Don't start a business. Find a problem, Solve a problem, The business comes second. — Robert Herjavec

Without the ability to visualize a goal and believe it will be reached, nothing of substance will be achieved. Not by anybody. Not at any time. Not in any place. — Robert Herjavec

Don't ever be enamored by what something sells for. It's more important what you get to keep in your pocket. — Robert Herjavec

Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses. — Robert Herjavec

I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there. — Robert Herjavec