Michael Gerber Quotes

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

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

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

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

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

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.

Systems run the business and people run the systems.

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

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.

A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

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

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

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

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!

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

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?

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.

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.