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. - Michael Gerber

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.

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.

And so that chapter of our hero’s life was closed and a new chapter opened. He moved into his early forties and the end of his second marriage, which also, by this time, had produced a child — his third daughter — another love of his life who could not, as no child can ever do, repair a broken marriage. During the years that followed, he became about the best anyone could be in his now chosen profession. He learned the secrets he thought were hidden. He married a woman far bigger than the others, had two more children, fought battles with his ignorance at times titanic in scope, moved through one obstacle after another, wrote books, spoke throughout the world, built a great business, only to watch it almost fail, persisted in building it up again, lanced, jabbed, wrestled, grappled, laughed, sang, loved, and roared, and through it all, remembered one simple thing that meant more to him than anything else he had ever thought: the curtain, the curtain. Keep the curtain up at all cost.