Michael Gerber Quotes

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions.

You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.

I spend most of my career as a management consultant, a businessman working with family-owned small and medium-sized businesses. The businesses that make up the core of our economy.

I never aspired to be a public figure. I have always been interested primarily in real business and the development of business strategies.

Businesses will ultimately go where the markets and opportunities are.

Leaders of companies of any size, at any stage of development spend a lot of time focused on growing the business. We develop our game plan and ensure that we are optimally executing on our objectives. We concentrate on looking forward.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

I'm not looking to... I'd like to build my company and make a bigger company always, but I think in the behind the scenes arena is where I'd prefer to spend my time.

It's not wise to limit firms' expansion projects. Let us only be limited by the market.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

What an entrepreneur does is to build for the long run. If the market is great, you get all of the resources you can. You build to it. But a good entrepreneur is always prepared to throttle back, put on the brakes, and if the world changes, adapt to the world.

The most common way to grow a business is by overseeing each and every aspect of the company - the 'ground up' method.

My expertise is running businesses.