Michael Gerber wrote the wildly popular book, The E-Myth Revisited which every budding entrepreneur should read.
In his book, Gerber examines what it really means to be an entrepreneur going beyond the fantasy of self employment into the hard reality of what it takes to make your business not only survive, but prosper.
Michael Gerber gives you insight into your business and most importantly, yourself.
His insightful and challenging quotes are below:
"The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing."
"The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost."
"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."
"Yes, the simple truth about the greatest business people I have known is that they have a genuine fascination for the truly astonishing impact little things done exactly right can have on the world."
"The technical work of a business and the business that does that technical work are two totally different things."
"You realize something you've avoided all these years. You come fact to fact with the unavoidable truth: You don't own a business, you own a job!"
"To the entrepreneur, the present day world is modeled after his vision. To the technician, the future is modeled after the present day world."
"How do you build a business that works without you?"
"Once you recognize that the purpose of your life is not to serve your business, but that the primary purpose of your business is to servce your life, you can then go to work on your business rather than in it."
"Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives. Their lives are spent living out the vision they have of their future, in the present."
