Robert Herjavec Quotes

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

Never surrender opportunity for security.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

Don't get stuck on a business plan just because it was your business plan.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

When the world says, 'Jump,' you gotta jump. It's like me moving to America when I was 29. I just did it. And now it's a home. You can't plan those things.

I think if you have too much fear, you're never going to break ground or develop.

There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

... to keep moving up ... , you have to abandon the security of that ledge and reach for another hold. Letting go of that sense of security.. is the challenge. ... think of yourself as climbing a ladder. To move to the next rung, you must give up your grip and reach for the next one.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

In any business, you have to evolve.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.