Robert Herjavec

I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.

What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible.

The idea of getting a lifetime job, and making $100,000 a year, with benefits, is dead and gone. It's over. And it may never come again. That's a very scary thought for a lot of people.

When I sold my first business, I wanted to do something nice for my dad. I wanted to give my parents a bunch of money, but they wouldn't take anything from me. They were so happy for me; they felt they didn't need money.

People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both.

Long before I had money, my passion for cars was there.

I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life.

I don't think anyone wakes up and says, 'I want my life to suck today.'

I just don't sleep enough. But I have never met someone very successful who, at the end of their life, says 'I wish I slept more.'

Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.

If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.