Michael Gerber Quotes

The purpose of going into business is to get free of a job so you can create jobs for other people. “The purpose of going into business is to expand beyond your existing horizons.

I wonder’ is the true work of the entrepreneurial personality.” She tried to

What is standing in the way of my customer getting what he wants from my business?

Nada hubiera podido ser más acertado. Nada hubiera podido llegarme más hondo. Entonces, John Anderson dijo: «Vamos a dar una vuelta». 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 y preferencias económicas. Juntas, forman lo que llamo matriz de la empresa E-Myth. John Anderson lo sabía instintivamente.

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

if living with your spirit, means anything to you at all, if you truly care about it, then guard it with your life. Because Comfort overtakes us all when we’re least prepared for it. Comfort makes cowards of us all.

From the very outset, IBM was fashioned after the template of my vision. And each and every day we attempted to model the company after that template. At the end of each day, we asked ourselves how well we did, discovered the disparity between where we were and where we had committed ourselves to be, and, at the start of the following day, set out to make up for the difference. Every day at IBM was a day devoted to business development, not doing business. We didn’t do business at IBM, we built one

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

Escala. ¿Y qué pasa con la escala de la empresa? ¿Se ha construido para la gente o para intimidarla? ¿Nos quita el aliento o nos hace reír? ¿Dice «Nos lo vamos a pasar en grande», como Disneylandia, que se extiende hasta donde alcanza la vista, o nos encierra y consigue que sólo pensemos en escapar? ¿Tiene la escala de una catedral gótica o de un tren en miniatura? Las iglesias góticas no se construyeron pensando en la comodidad, y los trenes en miniatura no transmiten potencia.

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 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.

Documentation says, “This is how we do it here.

The Entrepreneur is our creative personality — always at its best dealing with the unknown, prodding the future, creating probabilities out of possibilities, engineering chaos into harmony

Um sábio afirmou: «Conhece-te a ti próprio.»

O nosso trabalho levou-nos a todo o lado e a praticamente toda a gente, ou pelo menos a toda a gente que se dedica a negócios, empreendedorismo, desenvolvimento económico e crescimento em organizações, seja qual for o seu tamanho, forma ou abrangência.