232 Powerful Michael Gerber Quotes to Inspire You
5. “The entire idea of building a series of systems in a business is simply this - to create the tools that allow you, as a business owner, to increase productivity and get the job done. The idea behind these systems, of course, is to quit needing your judgement or input in every area of the business.”
Michael Gerber
Business Systems, Productivity Tools, Operational Efficiency, Systems, Tools, Efficiency
6. “No matter what your company does - build, manage, produce, import - as an owner, you can't avoid the hard work and skip straight to success. No class can give you that, no YouTube video can teach it, and no book can mark it off your list.”
Michael Gerber Hard Work, Entrepreneurial Reality, Business Success, Work, Reality, Success
7. “Empirical and observational data along with a healthy dash of intuition often have to be combined as business owners begin to look outward, not inward, at what solutions they can provide to their customers.”
Michael Gerber Data Insights, Customer Solutions, Intuition Role, Insights, Solutions, Role
8. “In the development of your Marketing Strategy, it is absolutely imperative that you forget about your dreams, forget about your visions, forget about your interests, forget about what you want—forget about everything but your customer!”
Michael Gerber Marketing Strategy, Customer Focus, Business Priorities, Strategy, Focus, Priorities
11. “The Big Dream of any entrepreneur really has very little to do with the entrepreneur. If you truly love repairing automobiles, chances are, you'll be a lousy business owner. Likewise, if you are fascinated by debits and credits, the dream of building an accounting firm with you at the helm is probably best left unfulfilled.”
Michael Gerber Entrepreneurial Dream, Business Ownership, Professional Expertise, Dream, Ownership, Expertise
16. “Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda’s A Separate Peace: “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.”
Michael Gerber Warrior Mindset, Life Perspective, Castaneda Quote, Mindset, Perspective, Quote
17. “Understand this - as a new company, if you don't know how to get interested prospects into your company, then you don't have a company. At the same time, if you, as an owner, have to drive every lead into your business, then you need a real lead generation strategy.”
Michael Gerber Lead Generation, Business Growth, Prospect Engagement, Generation, Growth, Engagement
18. “You can't be the accountant in your accounting firm. You can't cut the grass in your landscaping business. You can't work on the vehicles in your auto repair shop... And you really can't spend all of your time managing those actions, either.”
Michael Gerber Role Delegation, Business Focus, Operational Efficiency, Delegation, Focus, Efficiency
22. “The deciding factor of why some entrepreneurs are successful and others fail is not limited to your DNA or your education; it is about the actions you take as the leader of your business.”
Michael Gerber Entrepreneurial Success, Leadership Actions, Business Factors, Success, Leadership, Factors
23. “Be honest: if your pitch is 90 minutes and you only have 60 set aside for a business lunch or a cup of coffee, there is no way that you can give an honest representation of your company or products. You're lying to yourself and wasting your own time as well as that of your prospect or partner.”
Michael Gerber Honest Pitch, Time Management, Business Representation, Honest, Management, Representation
24. “Have you ever noticed the fact that once you begin to think about something, you see it everywhere? Anyone who has ever begun the search for a new automobile can attest, from the moment you Google it, you begin to pass that model in traffic everywhere. Of course, they were there the whole time; we simply didn't have them at top of mind.”
Michael Gerber Focus Effect, Awareness Shift, Cognitive Patterns, Focus, Awareness, Patterns
26. “The kind of work you do, when you do it, how much of it there is, and who you delegate it to are often the cause of the quasi-schizophrenic behavior seen in many business owners and entrepreneurs.”
Michael Gerber Work Delegation, Entrepreneurial Struggles, Business Management, Delegation, Struggles, Management
27. “I believe it’s true that 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 difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. The difference between the two is living intentionally and living by accident.”
Michael Gerber Active Living, Intentional Life, Personal Greatness, Living, Intentional, Greatness
