Robert Herjavec Quotes

Your job isn’t to make money. It’s to find a problem that needs solving.

The greatest million dollar insight I can give anybody is find a big problem and then solve it in a big way.

To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening.

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems... Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it, you'll find an answer.

The biggest problem is startups in search of a problem. Chase what you're passionate about; you'll probably already have knowledge in the space.

If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

Usually, what I recommend to entrepreneurs is to focus on telling the problem first, about the customer or the person who has that problem.

There needs to be a bigger focus on creative innovation versus business models and cash flow.

So many entrepreneurs approach me and say, 'I want to start the next big thing,' and I say, 'Well, what are you solving?' And oftentimes they say, 'Oh, I'm not sure. I want to start something big.' You can never start something big without solving something small, right?

A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to sell needles, thread and buttons. He soon found the people did not want them, and his small stock was thrown back on his hands. Then he said wisely, "I'll not buy any more of these goods, but I'll go and ask people what they do want." Thereafter he studied the needs and desires of people, found out just what they most wanted, endeavored to meet those wants, and became the greatest business man of his time.

Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.

No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.

You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you're asking for money!

In a lot of ways, it's not the money that allows you to do new things. It's the growth and the ability to find things that people want and to use your creativity to target those.

You cannot solve a problem unless you diagnose the problem.

The value of a company is the sum of the problems you solve.

Solve a real problem. You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur to solve a real problem.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.

Nobody has a money problem - there are only idea problems.

The heart of entrepreneurship is never about what we have. It's about what we do.

To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want.