Michael Gerber Quotes

most businesses are operated according to what the owner wants as opposed to what the business needs.

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.

Hay cuatro categorías de preferencia que toda empresa ha de satisfacer en la mente y en el corazón de las cuatro influencias fundamentales. • Preferencias visuales. • Preferencias emocionales. • Preferencias funcionales. • Preferencias económicas. Juntas, forman lo que llamo matriz de la empresa E-Myth. Cada una de estas categorías ha de cumplir unos criterios específicos para poder decir que hablamos de una empresa E-Myth. Sígame en un viaje que se lo aclarará y que hará que también sea importante para usted.

In other words, pretend that you are going to franchise your business. (Note: I said pretend. I’m not saying that you should. That isn’t the point here — unless, of course, you want it to be.)

Value can be a word said at the door of the business as a customer leaves.

If you want to work in a business, get a job in somebody else’s business! But don’t go to work in your own. Because while you’re working, while you’re answering the telephone, while you’re baking pies, while you’re cleaning the windows and the floors, while you’re doing it, doing it, doing it, there’s something much more important that isn’t getting done. And it’s the work you’re not doing, the strategic work, the entrepreneurial work, that will lead your business forward, that will give you the life you’ve not yet known.

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

Ouspensky was saying that hell on earth is life as we have always lived it, and heaven on earth is breaking free of our long-standing patterns.

Thus, 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.

Quality is just a word, and an empty word at that, if it doesn’t include harmony, balance, passion, intention, attention. “Continuous improvement for its own sake is a waste of time. “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.

O Empreendedor é a nossa personalidade criativa — sempre a dar o seu melhor quando está a lidar com o desconhecido, tocando o futuro e transformando possibilidades em probabilidades, aplicando o seu engenho na transformação do caos em harmonia.

The greatest businesspeople I’ve met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost. And by getting it right, I’m not just talking about the business. I mean that there is something uplifting, some vision, some higher end in sight that “getting it right” would serve. An ethical certainty, a moral principle, a universal truth.

Em resultado disso, muitos dos negócios acabam no caos: impossíveis de gerir, imprevisíveis e pouco compensadores. Vejam os números.

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

seen from the appropriate perspective, the entire business process by which your company does what it does is a marketing process.