Robert Herjavec Quotes

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

Running your own business is a huge amount of fun, but there's also a huge amount of seriousness, so actually, they level out.

If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

You know I'm proud of all of them but I think that I am most proud of all my businesses and just being a business woman and being able to do that as well as you know hold my career as an actress.

Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

I spent the bulk of my career on building my company, and Morningstar is where the passion is.

Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.

Taking over our own business and running it ourselves has tied us even more to our fans.

Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.

I'm proud we have built a billion-dollar business from scratch here in the US. It has been done very much in a slow, building way. It wasn't an instant type of thing. America is a huge market where persistence is very important, and I am a builder by nature.

From my point of view, what I really like, what I think is really terrific about my work, is that the company's had the opportunity to train literally thousands and thousands of brand new franchisees to successfully run their very first business.

As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.

Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business, we thought first of all about development, how to grow, and we managed to do this, even with all the difficulties and all the difficult rules that were implemented in Russia at that time.

It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.

Growing your own business is great. Watching your ideas come to life, taking care of new customers and watching them become repeat customers, and successfully building your team is a feeling that can't be matched.

We've got to start making people realise that it's a proud thing to run a business, to export your goods around the country.

Before I started WeWork, I owned a baby clothing company based in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.

Startups are not the best choice for work-life balance, and that's sort of just the sad reality.

It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.