Top 38 Michael Gerber Quotes
#1. Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.
Michael Gerber
#2. You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.
Michael Gerber
#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. Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
Jack Bowman
#5. If everybody's doing everything, then who's accountable for anything?
Michael Gerber
#6. Sometimes in the quest for enlightenment the only thing that gets lighter is your wallet.
Steve Maraboli
#7. I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life.
Eileen Myles
#8. The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
Michael Gerber
#9. If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.
Michael Gerber
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. The day I won an Emmy was also the day my father passed away. I received a call from my sister on the way to the ceremony and had to turn my car around and catch the first flight back to Karachi.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
#13. 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
#14. He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no-one knew where he kept it.
The point was that everyone else had someone, even if in Nobby's case it was probably against their will.
Terry Pratchett
#15. When I was talking to strangers over the Internet in the 1990s, there would be a much more intense connection because they're disembodied, so it's just your brain and your soul interacting with this other person, and it just frees you up in this incredibly empowering way.
Glenn Greenwald
#16. 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
#17. Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.
Michael Gerber
#18. 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
#20. Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.
Michael Gerber
#21. With no clear picture of how you wish your life to be, how on earth are you going to live it?
Michael Gerber
#22. 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
#23. Systems run the business and people run the systems.
Michael Gerber
#25. Wide is the path to ignorance; narrow is the path to wisdom, and even narrower is the path to virtue.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#26. 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
#27. 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.
#28. 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
#30. What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true?
Michael Gerber
#31. 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
#32. The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.
Michael E. Gerber
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.
Jared Diamond
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