Michael Gerber Business Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up. — Michael E. Gerber

Delegating your accountabilities is abdication — Michael E. Gerber

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

Systems run the business and people run the systems. — Michael Gerber

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

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

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

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