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
Steve Jobs didn't seek solace among minimum wage workers. He sought it from highly educated men and women who understood and shared… — Michael Gerber Focus 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
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
The world is littered with the tales of small businesses in the dire straits of hiring that spent time and money they… — Michael Gerber Business Copy Share Image
Certainly, the human race can be fickle, and times do change, but overall, the barriers to bringing a product to market -… — Michael Gerber Change 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
If there is one thing that offers challenges to small companies as they start to grow and expand, it is the hiring… — Michael Gerber Challenges 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
If you expect to grow your business, you need to be plotting out your schedules days in advance. Until you get that… — Michael Gerber Books Copy Share Image
Understand this - as a new company, if you don't know how to get interested prospects into your company, then you don't… — Michael Gerber Business 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 Business Copy Share Image
Everywhere you turn, there are lists and statistics. Any business, any sport, any hobby - we will try to categorize who is… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Strategic Work is all about the big questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Tactical Work is all about answers: This is the… — 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 Business Copy Share Image
If you haven't created the time as an owner to understand why people are choosing your model over your competition, then you… — Michael Gerber Business 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 Business Copy Share Image
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 Business 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 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 Business Copy Share Image
Your target market and their demographics realistically need to be in alignment with your own beliefs and morals, or you may have… — Michael Gerber Alignment 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 Business 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
When I say, 'doin' it, doin' it, doin' it' to a group of small business owners, they immediately respond. They recognize the… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
'Product life' is measured in months, not years, and as soon as you introduce a 'product,' understand that others in your business… — Michael Gerber Business 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
A martial arts practice hall, a dojo, is a place you go to practice being the best you can be. But the… — Michael Gerber Art 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 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 Business Copy Share Image
Empirical and observational data along with a healthy dash of intuition often have to be combined as business owners begin to look… — Michael Gerber Business Copy Share Image
Be honest: if your pitch is 90 minutes and you only have 60 set aside for a business lunch or a cup… — Michael Gerber 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 Copy Share Image
Most people who go into business for themselves and, therefore, believe they are entrepreneurs, are doomed to struggle because they don't have… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
If opening your own business is the dream, then it must start with a Dream - not only to understand what it… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Remember: you cannot build a better mouse trap by fixing the old one - NewCo demands active ownership, and that activity is… — 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 Action 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
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
I don't know why the word 'solopreneur' is in our lexicon. Nobody can physically do it all by themselves, and more importantly,… — Michael Gerber Management Copy Share Image
Without concentration, a business will be ordinary in every respect, because it will have no presence, no inner force, no way to… — Michael Gerber Business Copy Share Image
