Rob Dyrdek Quotes

If you expect to grow your business, you need to be plotting out your schedules days in advance. Until you get that most basic of steps orchestrated, you can never get to the critical steps that I outline in any one of dozens of books.

If you ever hope to get ahead as an entrepreneur, the answer is not becoming an effective juggler, but in understanding and designing the systems to keep your team, not you, busy, busy, busy.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how meticulously manage my time.

I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

The world of the small business owner is all about moving multiple items forward at once, and it's a fool's errand to believe one person can do it all when the shift comes from linear to parallel.

Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.

Good management has helped me find much of the success I've got.

I'm always investing and building things at the same time.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs.

I used to have to pick up the phone and talk to people who placed orders for the car. When you reach a certain size, you need to have processes in place.

I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

I try to be as efficient as possible.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well.

As an entrepreneur, in many ways it's like looking into the crystal ball for what my company will hopefully go through as it starts to think about bigger challenges - scaling internationally, getting ready to go public, and all those different things.

What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.

I put projects together. I put people together.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.