Michael Gerber

Being an entrepreneur is more than a matter of simply starting a business.

— Michael Gerber

Your success has to be measured against yourself - a decade ago, last year, or yesterday.

— Michael Gerber

You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.

— Michael Gerber

With no clear picture of how you wish your life to be, how on earth are you going to live it?

— Michael Gerber

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

— Michael Gerber

If everybody's doing everything, then who's accountable for anything?

— Michael Gerber

If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.

— Michael Gerber

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.

— Michael Gerber

The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business…

— Michael Gerber

The Internet is fundamentally free, and when faced with the decision to use something free, we, as humans, always seek to grab…

— Michael Gerber

More than a few studies have shown that the five people you spend the most time with represent you - so you…

— Michael Gerber

Results transform the world, and a great dream creates results. That's what this thing we call 'business' is really all about.

— Michael Gerber

Your Dream, Vision, Purpose, and Mission all come together when you bring products to market - so make sure you're bringing your…

— Michael Gerber

In my experience, most small businesses are worried about the client fulfillment - 'getting the Job done' - and lead generation far…

— Michael Gerber

The challenge of any business owner is not only to keep the saw sharp, but also to know if you even have…

— Michael Gerber

The deciding factor of why some entrepreneurs are successful and others fail is not limited to your DNA or your education; it…

— Michael Gerber

No matter what your company does - build, manage, produce, import - as an owner, you can't avoid the hard work and…

— Michael Gerber

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

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

Look at what is average in your area, your industry, and your company and then be better. That could be as simple…

— Michael Gerber

Your target market and their demographics realistically need to be in alignment with your own beliefs and morals, or you may have…

— Michael Gerber

Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede…

— Michael Gerber

Have you ever noticed the fact that once you begin to think about something, you see it everywhere? Anyone who has ever…

— Michael Gerber

People crave predictability, and when you design and use systems, you give people predictability. More importantly, when you build systems, they can…

— Michael Gerber

The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they…

— Michael Gerber

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

— Michael Gerber

The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.

— Michael Gerber

Build a company that changes the way things get done!

— Michael Gerber

Systems run the business and people run the systems.

— Michael Gerber

Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

— Michael Gerber

Every life a legacy, every small business a school.

— Michael Gerber

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

— Michael Gerber

The more Strategic Work you do, the more effective, productive, and joyful the Tactical Work becomes.

— Michael Gerber

Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.

— Michael Gerber

“The natural tendency of man is to remain unconscious.”

— Michael Gerber

What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true?

— Michael Gerber

Remember, if your business isn't making money, then you and your employees aren't, either.

— Michael Gerber

At some point, you have to declare an idea dead and, if not a failure, then at least not a success.

— Michael Gerber

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

Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.

— Michael Gerber