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

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.

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.

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

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

You may create a inspirational & visually resplendent strategy map but without accountability its value is specious

I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love.

In the short run and for decisions unlikely to have broad impact, it may be more cost effective to use just one expert.

I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport.

Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

I just enjoy both working and not working.