Your success has to be measured against yourself - a decade ago, last year, or yesterday. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
At some point, you have to declare an idea dead and, if not a failure, then at least not a success. — 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
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
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
If you are with five successful people, then you are the sixth successful person. The reverse of this is true as well,… — 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
Your success starts with how you are able to get clients in the door, get their business, and leave them satisfied. If… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The only choice that leads small business owners to real success in their endeavors is the one that requires real thought. Understanding… — 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
