Robert Herjavec Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it’s the patience of a marathon runner.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I don’t think anyone wakes up and says, ‘I want my life to suck today.’

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

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.

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

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.

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.’