Michael Gerber famous quotes

03-25-2025

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

#Order #Vision #Patterns
The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.
-- Michael Gerber

#Business
The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.
-- Michael Gerber

#Business #Mistake #Decision
A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.
-- Michael Gerber

#Business #Opportunity #Entrepreneur
Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.
-- Michael Gerber

#People #Ordinary #Achieve
Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.
-- Michael Gerber

#Running #People #Function
If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.
-- Michael Gerber

#Jobs #Your Presence #Ifs
Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
-- Michael Gerber

#People #Ordinary #Great Business
If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!
-- Michael Gerber

#Jobs #World #Worst
The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities.
-- Michael Gerber

#Opportunity #People #Decision
The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
-- Michael Gerber

#People #Cost #Matter
If everybody's doing everything, then who's accountable for anything?
-- Michael Gerber

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

#Wish #Earth #Clear
Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.
-- Michael Gerber

#Practice #People #Vision
The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren?t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
-- Michael Gerber

#Failure #Thinking #Insatiable Need
Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.
-- Michael Gerber

#Passion #Commitment #Practice
What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true?
-- Michael Gerber

#Dream #Scripts #Aim
What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?
-- Michael Gerber

#Goal #Progress #Gone
A martial arts practice hall, a dojo, is a place you go to practice being the best you can be. But the true combat in a dojo is not between one person and another as most people believe it to be. The true combat in a martial arts practice hall is between the people within ourselves.
-- Michael Gerber

#Art #Believe #Practice

You may also like:

Brian Tracy
Entrepreneur
David Chilton
Author
David Maister
Writer
George S. Clason
Writer
Jack Welch
Author
James C. Collins
Author
John Jantsch
Author
Ken Blanchard
Author
Lawrence Bossidy
Businessman
Lou Gerstner
Jr.
Marcus Buckingham
Author
Napoleon Hill
Author
Robert Kiyosaki
Investor
Rudy Giuliani
Former Mayor of New York City
Scott Bedbury
Seth Godin
Author
Spencer Johnson
Author
Stephen Covey
Author
Tim Ferriss
Author
Paco Underhill
Author