Entrepreneur Quotes by Michael Gerber

16 Entrepreneur quotes by Michael Gerber

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Michael Gerber’s take on entrepreneurship reads like a workshop on building sustainable operations. Across 16 quotes he stresses the importance of systems, consistency, and working on the business rather than just in it.

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

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

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

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

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No matter what, once the doors are open for business, the entrepreneur has no choice but to be directing multiple attacks at…

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Your goal as an entrepreneur is to understand not only what your business does but the clients that it serves. If you…

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

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If you ever hope to get ahead as an entrepreneur, the answer is not becoming an effective juggler, but in understanding and…

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The entrepreneur rarely thinks in terms of what he or she wants, but dreams about results - always results and nothing but…

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It is one thing to seek out new ways to grow your company and new potential streams of income from new services…

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The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us…

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As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You've dreamed of the 'right' ones, you've projected…

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No matter what, the entrepreneur must strive to be above average and, at the same time, understand what is driving those averages…

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How can you, as a small business owner, figure out what you are and, from there, begin to take action? Simple -…

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The Big Dream of any entrepreneur really has very little to do with the entrepreneur. If you truly love repairing automobiles, chances…

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I'm not here to tell you what your average needs to be, but it would seem to me that one way to…

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

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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…

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

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If you expect to grow your business, you need to be plotting out your schedules days in advance. Until you get that most basic…

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Growing your own business is great. Watching your ideas come to life, taking care of new customers and watching them become repeat customers, and…

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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…

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

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Without concentration, a business will be ordinary in every respect, because it will have no presence, no inner force, no way to attract the…

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When I say, 'doin' it, doin' it, doin' it' to a group of small business owners, they immediately respond. They recognize the experience of…

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

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There are three things that can be organized: time, space, and work. Note that, despite what many believe, you cannot organize people - you…

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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…

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