Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.
Michael GerberRead
The only choice that leads small business owners to real success in their endeavors is the one that requires real thought. Understanding and building the systems they need within their company to afford them a framework of organization that can scale the business from a company of one to a company of one thousand.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Real success for small business owners comes from thoughtful decision-making and effective system building.
This quote emphasizes that small business owners achieve genuine success by engaging in deep, meaningful thought about their business strategies. It highlights the importance of establishing organized systems within a company that can facilitate growth, enabling a transition from a small operation to a larger, scalable organization capable of handling greater responsibilities and challenges.
Themes
SuccessBusinessSystemsOrganizationGrowth
In practice
Example use cases
A motivational speaker discussing business strategies at a conference.
More from Michael Gerber
All quotes →Quit being 'busy' and start actively owning and operating your company, and you'll be able to understand where the money is coming from and how to make more of it.
Michael GerberRead
Most people who go into business for themselves and, therefore, believe they are entrepreneurs, are doomed to struggle because they don't have a true Entrepreneurial Perspective. They have a Technician's Perspective.
Michael GerberRead
The entrepreneur rarely thinks in terms of what he or she wants, but dreams about results - always results and nothing but results - that can solve someone else's problem or contribute to making someone else's life better.
Michael GerberRead
Here's the problem with phones - they are a ready-made diversion from the considerably harder work of growing a business.
Michael GerberRead
Your goal as an entrepreneur is to understand not only what your business does but the clients that it serves. If you really have your pulse on their needs and wants, then your 'absolute' failures are always going to have limits.
Michael GerberRead
Similar quotes
Fun is one of the most important - and underrated - ingredients in any successful venture. If you're not having fun, then it's probably time to call it quits and try something else.
Richard BransonRead
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Earl NightingaleRead
Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.
Judith JamisonRead
I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.
Gloria SwansonRead
I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
Nadia ComaneciRead
I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.
Francis Ford CoppolaRead