Michael Gerber Quotes

All good entrepreneurs have to start somewhere with a dedicated plan to finish in a great place.

Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation of the finer things in life.

You don't come to work going, 'Oh my God, I've got all this money I have to worry about'. You come to work going, 'I need more time and more money'. Because whatever resources you're given, you're always trying to push the envelope.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.

A lot of people who own a business aren't entrepreneurial at all.

I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

I'm very ambitious when it comes to business.

It's important for founders to think about how they would build their company from scratch - again.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it's part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

A three-to-six month course can give priority and direction on the five or six important things that entrepreneurs need to do first.

The thing that really sticks - and when you talk to entrepreneurs, they say the same - is just thinking about the next day, the next week.

You have to make every day count toward your dream.

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

I wake up every morning and think to myself, 'How far can I push the company forward in the next 24 hours?

Dreaming is great, but thinking big thoughts alone will not build a business, pay your bills or make you into the person you know in your heart you can be.

The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.

I've always got a whole bunch of things in the works. That's sort of the nature of the business. Even when you're doing something you love doing, you have to be plotting and scheming and writing and preparing for what you're going to do when that's finished.

A lot of people especially want to know about going into business. But it's a two-way conversation.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

If you really want to be successful in the business, you have to make that your priority, above family and everything else. It takes up every minute of your life.

To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.