Michael E. Gerber Quotes

#1. Delegating your accountabilities is abdication

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#2. And what makes people work is an idea worth working for, along with a clear understanding of what needs to be done.

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#3. The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.

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#4. Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda's A Separate Peace: The difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse.

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#5. Said another way, the Entrepreneurial Model has less to do with what's done in a business and more to do with how it's done. The commodity isn't what's important - the way it's delivered is. When The Entrepreneur creates the model,

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#6. 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!

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#7. Your job is to commit to the process of becoming an entrepreneur and then to practice what entrepreneurs do so that entrepreneurship can find you when you've practiced enough to be ready.

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

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#9. Contrary to popular belief, 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.

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