Top 43 Michael E Gerber Quotes
#1. 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
#2. When many people think of "new age" they think of crystals and purple decals and ceramic angels in people's windows and a kind of fuzzy thinking - which is abhorrent to a serious person.
Marianne Williamson
#3. 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
#4. The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#5. If everybody's doing everything, then who's accountable for anything?
Michael Gerber
#6. We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness.
Rick Riordan
#7. Love, certainly, might be a momentarily strong force capable of moving individuals in strange and remarkable ways, but given sufficient time and the relentless weathering effects of repetition it will always and ultimately diffuse into boredom and melancholy.
John Zande
#8. We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
Barack Obama
#9. The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
Michael Gerber
#10. If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.
Michael Gerber
#11. If I'm home, I'll be happy. And if I'm around family, and if I'm working on projects with friends, I don't know what else I'd want to be doing.
Howard Warren Buffett
#12. You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.
Michael Gerber
#13. Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.
Michael Gerber
#14. 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
#15. Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit.
Daniel Keyes
#16. The cross the preacher had told him about was bloody, not flaming; meek, not militant. It had made him feel awe and wonder, not fear and panic. It had made him want to kneel and cry, but this cross made him want to curse and kill.
Richard Wright
#17. 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.
Michael E. Gerber
#18. Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'
Martin Filler
#19. Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.
Michael Gerber
#20. There are few things more calming than a quiet room full of books.
Trudy Wallis
#22. Life is about choices; it's not about excuses. Excuses only trap us into believing that we cannot take control of our own lives.
Michael Gerber
#23. Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.
Michael Gerber
#24. With no clear picture of how you wish your life to be, how on earth are you going to live it?
Michael Gerber
#25. 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
#26. Systems run the business and people run the systems.
Michael Gerber
#27. No wonder he has such nice teeth. They probably pay him in dental floss.
Janette Rallison
#30. I believe the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.
Michael Gerber
#31. The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is living fully and just existing.
Gerber Michael E.
#32. 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
#33. To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.
David Millar
#34. What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true?
Michael Gerber
#35. And what makes people work is an idea worth working for, along with a clear understanding of what needs to be done.
Michael E. Gerber
#36. The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.
Michael E. Gerber
#37. 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
#38. 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.
Michael E. Gerber
#39. 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,
Michael E. Gerber
#40. 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 E. Gerber
#41. 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.
Michael E. Gerber
#43. 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 E. Gerber
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