128 Quotes by Michael Gerber

Systems run the business and people run the systems.

If everybody's doing everything, then who's accountable for anything?

The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.