Michael Gerber Quotes

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?

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

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

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've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

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

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.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

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

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.

Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

Money is always the least of the problems. It is finding the right business or growing the right business. You can't do that without the right people.

For over forty years, I've been one of the most passionate believers in entrepreneurs. From day one, I've learned that too many small businesses are predicated on business models that the owner barely understands, and then, those same men and women are baffled when their business dreams are overwhelmed with struggles they never foresaw.

I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.

You need to run the company on an even keel, and you need to be thinking about the company long-term and how to drive your next innovation.

This industry is a business - I'm a business myself, and I want to be able to run my own business.

I think a lot of entrepreneurs think they need money to build the business faster when they actually haven't figured out the business equation yet.

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

I'm not into business at all.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.