Quotes from Michael E. Gerber

I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy.

productive and happy as possible. "And if I only indulge my preferences, I will never be able to replace myself with anyone other than another owner, someone just like me, someone with

The Entrepreneur's boundary is a function of how many managers he can engage in pursuit of his vision.

Quality is just a word, and an empty word at that, if it doesn't include harmony, balance, passion, intention, attention.

He needs to know why he's doing what he's doing.

The first thing that surprised me when I came to work here," the Manager said, "was that the owner took me seriously.

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.

And that was the second thing that surprised me when I came to work here," the Manager continued. "How seriously the Boss took the operation of this hotel.

You can't sell it when you want to, because who wants to buy a job?

It was as though the hotel was more than just a hotel to him. "It was like the hotel was an expression of who he was, a symbol of what he believed in.

Every day at IBM was a day devoted to business development, not doing business.

I want you to improve your ability to improve your company by leading the process of improvement, not by improving a process in your company by yourself. The improvement of your company will be a function of your enhanced ability to improve your company, which is the skill of innovation.

El problema consiste en que pensamos que estamos despiertos. Pensamos que ya somos objetivos. Pensamos que ya somos individuos. Pensamos que ya somos libres. ¡Pensamos que pensamos!

Nos decimos que, como todo este condicionamiento es lo habitual, para desarrollarnos, para ser más efectivos, para ser mejores personas, para ser más humanos, lo que debemos hacer es desarrollar hábitos mejores. Voilà! En lugar de intentar despertarnos, la solución es dormir mejor. Es un problema muy complejo. Puede pasar cualquier cosa. Por un lado, le he dicho que le voy a proporcionar una receta, un esquema, para lograr el éxito empresarial.

And because it starts that way, it is more likely to continue that way. And therein resides the true difference between an Adolescent company, where everything is left up to chance, and a Mature company, where there is a vision against which the present is shaped.

And we do that by making sure they understand the idea behind the work they're being asked to do.

great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

What was important was how seriously I took to playing the game he had created here.

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.

Una empresa E-Myth es una empresa que asume responsabilidad personal por la situación del mundo en el que se encuentra; por la situación de las personas con las que interactúa; por la situación de sus hijos y la de los hijos de sus hijos; por la calidad de la propia vida. Una empresa con conciencia. Ésa es, creo, la única misión digna de tal nombre. Para poder cumplir esa misión, debemos dar todo lo que tenemos.

It can become that place where words such as integrity, intention, commitment, vision, and excellence can be used as action steps in the process of producing a worthwhile result. What

a business that 'gets small again' is a business reduced to the level of its owner's personal resistance to change, to its owner's Comfort Zone, in which the owner waits and works, works and waits, hoping for something positive to happen.

Because in a business like that what your customers are buying is not your business's ability to give them what they want but your ability to give them what they want. And that's what's wrong with it!

Simply put, your job is to prepare yourself and your business for growth. "To educate yourself sufficiently so that, as your business grows, the business's foundation and structure can carry the additional weight.