Top 40 Robert Herjavec Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A goal without a deadline is just a dream.”

— Robert Herjavec

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2. “Don’t start a business. Find a problem. Solve a problem. The business comes second.”

— Robert Herjavec

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3. “I’m a very nice guy, but don’t mistake my kindness for weakness.”

— Robert Herjavec

4. “If you’re hard on yourself, life will be easy on you.”

— Robert Herjavec

5. “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

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

— Robert Herjavec

7. “Too much thinking leads to paralysis by analysis.”

— Robert Herjavec

8. “You have to have something bigger than you. You have to have a goal that is greater than you.”

— Robert Herjavec

9. “Someday’ isn’t a real day like Monday or Tuesday; it’s just another word for ’never.”

— Robert Herjavec

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

— Robert Herjavec

11. “Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.”

— Robert Herjavec

12. “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

13. “Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.”

— Robert Herjavec

14. “What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible.”

— Robert Herjavec

15. “I like to invest in people that I like to hang with.”

— Robert Herjavec

16. “Be risky at work. Be safe with your investments.”

— Robert Herjavec

17. “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

18. “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

19. “The best way to get past doubt and inexperience is simply action.”

— Robert Herjavec

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

— Robert Herjavec

21. “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

22. “People who succeed in life have a need for something greater than themselves.”

— Robert Herjavec

23. “People ask, ‘Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?’ I think it’s a combination of both.”

— Robert Herjavec

24. “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

25. “Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.”

— Robert Herjavec

26. “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

27. “If you’re emotional and you’re great at something, the money will follow.”

— Robert Herjavec

28. “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

29. “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

30. “I’m really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.”

— Robert Herjavec

31. “The more you avoid risk, the less likely it is that you’ll achieve all that is possible within your own capabilities.”

— Robert Herjavec

32. “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

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

— Robert Herjavec

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

— Robert Herjavec

35. “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

36. “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

37. “Don’t ever be enamored by what something sells for. It’s more important what you get to keep in your pocket.”

— Robert Herjavec

38. “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

39. “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

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

— Robert Herjavec

41. “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

42. “I have my mother’s hips. The minute I eat it, it ends up on my hips.”

— Robert Herjavec

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

— Robert Herjavec

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

— Robert Herjavec