Being an entrepreneur is more than a matter of simply starting a business. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business! — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Results transform the world, and a great dream creates results. That's what this thing we call 'business' is really all about. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
In my experience, most small businesses are worried about the client fulfillment - 'getting the Job done' - and lead generation far… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The challenge of any business owner is not only to keep the saw sharp, but also to know if you even have… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The deciding factor of why some entrepreneurs are successful and others fail is not limited to your DNA or your education; it… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
As with anything we do as entrepreneurs, researching how our businesses impact and influence our customers and our markets - and our… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
No matter what your company does - build, manage, produce, import - as an owner, you can't avoid the hard work and… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
After decades of studying the men and women that make the decision to open their own Great, Growing Company, I'd have to… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You've dreamed of the 'right' ones, you've projected… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Look at what is average in your area, your industry, and your company and then be better. That could be as simple… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Your goal as an entrepreneur is to understand not only what your business does but the clients that it serves. If you… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
A true entrepreneurial enterprise begins with a big idea - a unique way to solve a customer's problem. Your customer, after all,… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
If you expect to grow your business, you need to be plotting out your schedules days in advance. Until you get that… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Remember, if your business isn't making money, then you and your employees aren't, either. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The Entrepreneurial Perspective is absolutely necessary for the creation of a great, growing business. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
If you are planning to start a business, and if you want that business to have a hope of succeeding, be sure… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
We all know that Ray Kroc founded the McDonald's franchise back in the 1950s, and it then became the most successful business… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Small business owners and entrepreneurs worthy of the title need to build systems that replace themselves. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
A person who willingly goes into business for themselves - and intentionally seeks out 'solopreneurship' - is insane! — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems.… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
If you ever hope to get ahead as an entrepreneur, the answer is not becoming an effective juggler, but in understanding and… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
You cannot build a company or manage a life by chasing others; you have to find your success competing against yourself. There… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The world is littered with the tales of small businesses in the dire straits of hiring that spent time and money they… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The kind of work you do, when you do it, how much of it there is, and who you delegate it to… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The more Strategic Work you do, the more effective, productive, and joyful the Tactical Work becomes. — Michael Gerber Copy Share
If you haven't created the time as an owner to understand why people are choosing your model over your competition, then you are only… — Michael Gerber Copy Share
I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business! — Michael Gerber Copy Share
If you expect to grow your business, you need to be plotting out your schedules days in advance. Until you get that most basic… — Michael Gerber Copy Share
Growing your own business is great. Watching your ideas come to life, taking care of new customers and watching them become repeat customers, and… — Michael Gerber Copy Share
You can't be the accountant in your accounting firm. You can't cut the grass in your landscaping business. You can't work on the vehicles… — Michael Gerber Copy Share
Without concentration, a business will be ordinary in every respect, because it will have no presence, no inner force, no way to attract the… — Michael Gerber Copy Share
When I say, 'doin' it, doin' it, doin' it' to a group of small business owners, they immediately respond. They recognize the experience of… — Michael Gerber Copy Share
There are three things that can be organized: time, space, and work. Note that, despite what many believe, you cannot organize people - you… — Michael Gerber Copy Share
The world of the small business owner is all about moving multiple items forward at once, and it's a fool's errand to believe one… — Michael Gerber Copy Share
Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo. — Michael Gerber Copy Share
Here's the problem with phones - they are a ready-made diversion from the considerably harder work of growing a business. — Michael Gerber Copy Share
Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably. — Michael Gerber Copy Share
