Being an entrepreneur is more than a matter of simply starting a business. — 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
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
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
No matter what, once the doors are open for business, the entrepreneur has no choice but to be directing multiple attacks at… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The entrepreneur rarely thinks in terms of what he or she wants, but dreams about results - always results and nothing but… — 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
The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
It is one thing to seek out new ways to grow your company and new potential streams of income from new services… — 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
No matter what, the entrepreneur must strive to be above average and, at the same time, understand what is driving those averages… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
How can you, as a small business owner, figure out what you are and, from there, begin to take action? Simple -… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
I'm not here to tell you what your average needs to be, but it would seem to me that one way to… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The Big Dream of any entrepreneur really has very little to do with the entrepreneur. If you truly love repairing automobiles, chances… — 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
