Robert Herjavec Quotes

Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.

I'm building a large company.

It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.

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.

I busted my butt all my life building companies.

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.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

After decades of studying the men and women that make the decision to open their own Great, Growing Company, I'd have to say it comes down to the Vision they have for that business - do they expect to build the company or just have some income for the short term?

An entrepreneur, whether man or woman, has to be willing to take help, whether financial or technical, to grow his or her business.

Creating the right advisory board for your startup can be the single most important step you take in building a new business.

It's exciting to be able to be part of the block and tackle of building a company from a smaller base.

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

I see opportunities in all my businesses. And the reason is simple. We thrive on countries that are urbanizing.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

Private companies should be building businesses.

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

You will never build a company on the scale of a Facebook or a Google if you sell it along the way.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

In 1983, I set up Caxton Corp. It's been an interesting and happy ride since.

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.