Quotes from Michael E. Gerber

In short, businesses that 'get small again' die.

To The Entrepreneur, the business is the product.

It is—first, last, and always—about how you act.

The Entrepreneurial Perspective adopts a wider, more expansive scale. It views the business as a network of seamlessly integrated components, each contributing to some larger pattern that comes together in such a way as to produce a specifically planned result, a systematic way of doing business.

Your arrows do not carry,' observed the Master, 'because they do not reach far enough spiritually.' Eugen Herrigel Zen and the Art of Archery

What most people need, then, is a place of community that has purpose, order, and meaning.

Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.

the key is to plan, envision, and articulate what you see in the future both for yourself and for your employees. Because if you don't articulate it—I mean, write it down, clearly, so others can understand it—

people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

the typical small business owner is only 10 percent Entrepreneur, 20 percent Manager, and 70 percent Technician.

How does one come to the point in his or her life when he or she is not only ready but eager and willing—however terrifying the prospect might be—to self-execute such a leap of faith without any guarantees that it will do any good?

I believe it's true that 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 the difference between living fully and just existing. The difference between the two is living intentionally and living by accident.

The Entrepreneurial Perspective asks the question: "How must the business work?" The Technician's Perspective asks: "What work has to be done?

The purpose of going into business is to get free of a job so you can create jobs for other people.

What's the difference? The commodity is the thing your customer actually walks out with in his hand. The product is what your customer feels as he walks out of your business. What he feels about your business, not what he feels about the commodity.

Systems theory looks at the world in terms of the interrelatedness of all phenomena, and in this framework an integrated whole whose properties cannot be reduced to those of its parts is called a system. Fritjof Capra The Turning Point

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! "And, besides, that's not the purpose of going into business. "The purpose of going into business is to get free of a job so you can create jobs for other people.

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job.

the Entrepreneurial Model does not start with a picture of the business to be created but of the customer for whom the business is to be created.

This book, then, is a product of the last fifteen years, as well as a product of the fifteen years that preceded them. It was almost exactly eight years before The E-Myth was published that I founded our company, E-Myth Worldwide, which has provided the fuel and experience for the point of view I have shared with those of you who have read The E-Myth, and with those

no one knew what was going on! It was completely open to interpretation. And his guess was as good as anyone's. My God, probably even better.

Life is what a business is about, and life is what this work is about. Coming to grips with oneself, in the face of an incredibly complex world that can teach us if we're open to learn.

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.

It's easy to spot a business in Infancy—the owner and the business are one and the same thing.