If you are with five successful people, then you are the sixth successful person. The reverse of this is true as well,… — Michael Gerber Hanging 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 Average Copy Share Image
Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice. — Michael Gerber Building 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 Business 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 Big idea 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 Business 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 Always Copy Share Image
Small business owners and entrepreneurs worthy of the title need to build systems that replace themselves. — Michael Gerber Build Copy Share Image
I believe the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is… — Michael Gerber Believe Copy Share Image
A person who willingly goes into business for themselves - and intentionally seeks out 'solopreneurship' - is insane! — Michael Gerber Business Copy Share Image
More than a few studies have shown that the five people you spend the most time with represent you - so you… — Michael Gerber More Copy Share Image
Your success has to be measured against yourself - a decade ago, last year, or yesterday. — Michael Gerber Last year Copy Share Image
For decades, I've spoken of McDonald's as one of the premier examples of how to build a company, scale it, and ultimately… — Michael Gerber Build 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 Business 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 Business 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 Dead Copy Share Image
As a small business owner, you may not have the luxury to throw good money after bad, but if you can ascertain… — Michael Gerber Bad Copy Share Image
I'm not really into the business of giving out tips, but if you are not using an all-encompassing software to integrate and… — Michael Gerber Business 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 Business Copy Share Image
Communication is the channel through which life is conveyed, through which ideas and the energy behind them are transmitted, and through which… — Michael Gerber Action 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 Business Copy Share Image