Michael Gerber Quotes

The model will provide consistent value to your customers, employees, suppliers, and lenders, beyond what they expect. 2. The model will be operated by people with the lowest possible level of skill. 3. The model will stand out as a place of impeccable order. 4. All work in the model will be documented in Operations Manuals. 5. The model will provide a uniformly predictable service to the customer. 6. The model will utilize a uniform color, dress, and facilities code.

Yes, the simple truth about the greatest businesspeople I have known is that they have a genuine fascination for the truly astonishing impact little things done exactly right can have on the world.

Every year, over a million people in this country start a business of some sort. Statistics tell us that by the end of the first year at least 40 percent of them will be out of business.1

Once you fully understand the relationship every owner must have with his or her business if it is to work, I can assure you that your business and your life will take on new vitality and new meaning.

They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.

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

Go to work on your business rather than in it, and ask yourself the following questions: • How can I get my business to work, but without me? • How can I get my people to work, but without my constant interference? • How can I systematize my business in such a way that it could be replicated 5,000 times, so the 5,000th unit would run as smoothly as the first? • How can I own my business, and still be free of it? • How can I spend my time doing the work I love to do rather than the work I have to do?

Don’t you see? If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business — you have a job.

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

the difference between creativity and Innovation is the difference between thinking about getting things done in the world and getting things done.

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

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.

And that is the sign of a Mature company. A Mature company is started differently than all the rest. A Mature company is founded on a broader perspective, an entrepreneurial perspective, a more intelligent point of view. About building a business that works not because of you but without you.

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!

Orchestration really is, Sarah: a habit. A way of doing something habitually.