Michael Gerber Quotes

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.

There was a point in time when I was in dire need of changing the way the model agency was working.

I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

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

Great leadership and great companies aren't built overnight, and they're not built without capital. And capital can sometimes be counter-productive to building a great culture.

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

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

If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.

We spend a great deal of our energy making sure that small businesses have help in navigating to the outcomes that they want.

A well-managed business will have a high return on invested capital. But that's a consequence. It's not a way to manage a business.

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

I want to take TSA to the next level.

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

In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

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

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.

Tactical Work is the work you do every day in your business to generate income, along with all of the operational, financial, and management tasks that entails.

Small business owners and entrepreneurs worthy of the title need to build systems that replace themselves.

Throughout history, the organizational evolution of the military has been inextricably linked with that of the business world.

Challenges need to be given to an organization.

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.

To scale your business, you need to delegate responsibilities to others and establish a strong company culture.

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.

I'd love to see more businesses take this approach - intentionally rightsizing themselves. Hit a number that feels good and say, 'Let's stick around here.'