Michael Gerber Quotes

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

Starting my business has been very hard work. I have received no help from any officials at all.

When you start a new company, you have to do it all. Yes, all of it.

I'm running a business.

Starting a successful company is one of the hardest things anyone does.

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees.

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.

I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.

In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea.

There are new challenges every day when starting a business and growing a brand, but I'm fortunate to have an amazing team that is always willing to work hard and navigate through whatever obstacle comes our way.

Whenever you start a new business, the sheer number of variables at hand makes failure a constant possibility.

If I'd really known how hard I was going to have to work behind the scenes to have any kind of business, I think I would have stopped.

To build a great business, you have to do something hard just to be able to withstand all the competition that will later come your way.

When I explained my business model to my family, they asked if I was going to open a travel agency.