If your business depends on you, you don't own a business -- you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic!Michael E. Gerber
The purpose of going into business is to get free of a job so you can create jobs for other people.Michael E. Gerber
Simply put, your job is to prepare yourself and your business for growth.Michael E. Gerber
Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.Michael E. Gerber
Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.Michael E. Gerber
What you do in your business has far less to do with its success than what you imagine it to be.Michael E. Gerber
The system runs the business. The people run the system.Michael E. Gerber
A business that looks orderly says to your customer that your people know what they are doing.Michael E. Gerber
Working on your business, not in it, is the best way to solve problems.Michael E. Gerber
People who are exceptionally good in business are so because of their insatiable need to know more, which is to say, the greatest businesspeople have the depth of the hopeless romantic.Michael E. Gerber
The E-Myth Point of View is that small businesses are not started by entrepreneurs bent on creating a large, robust, entrepreneurial business, but by technicians suffering from an Entrepreneurial Seizure.Michael E. Gerber