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The world is littered with the tales of small businesses in the dire straits of hiring that spent time and money they couldn't afford to hire people who couldn't perform.
- Michael Gerber
#Money
#People
#Small
#Time
#World
Your target market and their demographics realistically need to be in alignment with your own beliefs and morals, or you may have trouble reaching out to them - or keep them once others have entered the market.
- Michael Gerber
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#Others
#Own
#Target
#Trouble
The only choice that leads small business owners to real success in their endeavors is the one that requires real thought. Understanding and building the systems they need within their company to afford them a framework of organization that can scale the business from a company of one to a company of one thousand.
- Michael Gerber
#Business
#Choice
#Organization
#Success
One of the biggest challenges we have, as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms.
- Michael Gerber
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#Challenges
#People
#Think
The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
- Michael Gerber
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#Cost
#Matter
#People
#Right
Look at what is average in your area, your industry, and your company and then be better. That could be as simple as reading another book each month or attending a seminar each year. On the other hand, it also means acknowledging what 'average' actually is and how you, as the owner, arrive at that figure.
- Michael Gerber
#Better
#Book
#Company
#Look
#Simple
As a small business owner, you may not have the luxury to throw good money after bad, but if you can ascertain the 'why' of the failure, you can draw some significance from it and then turn it into something that clients will buy.
- Michael Gerber
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#Business
#Failure
#Good
#Money
You can't be the accountant in your accounting firm. You can't cut the grass in your landscaping business. You can't work on the vehicles in your auto repair shop... And you really can't spend all of your time managing those actions, either.
- Michael Gerber
#Accounting
#Business
#Grass
#Time
#Work
Every life a legacy, every small business a school.
- Michael Gerber
#Business
#Every
#Legacy
#Life
#School
I'm not really into the business of giving out tips, but if you are not using an all-encompassing software to integrate and sync your schedule, then you might be losing time. Most of these are free, and they can allow you to keep track of everything in one place and then access that from your computer, phone, or tablet.
- Michael Gerber
#Business
#Free
#Losing
#Software
#Time
Nobody knew they needed a smart phone, an automobile, or even a cheeseburger from a drive through window.
- Michael Gerber
#Drive
#Nobody
#Phone
#Smart
#Window
The number of businesses that fold due to bad partnerships is staggering. In some cases, they are charlatans, in others inept business people, and others find themselves unable to scale with any growth.
- Michael Gerber
#Bad
#Business
#Find
#Growth
#People
McDonalds. Apple. Starbucks. They were all small businesses, owned by entrepreneurs and people with vision.
- Michael Gerber
#Apple
#People
#Small
#Starbucks
#Vision
A true entrepreneurial enterprise begins with a big idea - a unique way to solve a customer's problem. Your customer, after all, is the only justification for creating a company in the first place. Without a big, transformational idea, you can't produce a great result for your customer.
- Michael Gerber
#Great
#Result
#True
#Unique
#Way
People crave predictability, and when you design and use systems, you give people predictability. More importantly, when you build systems, they can help you orchestrate, and orchestration helps you create the habits that continuously improve the systems!
- Michael Gerber
#Build
#Create
#Design
#Help
#People
Trendy gadgets and edgy pitches inevitably get replaced due to the fickle nature of the buying public, but a business designed from the start to play big has the ability to weather trends and redirect itself to venues and products that its customers want and need.
- Michael Gerber
#Big
#Business
#Gadgets
#Nature
#Weather
Communication is the channel through which life is conveyed, through which ideas and the energy behind them are transmitted, and through which the mind, body, and spirit are merged into a force for right action.
- Michael Gerber
#Action
#Communication
#Ideas
#Life
#Mind
'Product life' is measured in months, not years, and as soon as you introduce a 'product,' understand that others in your business are going to reverse engineer it to duplicate the results after they circumnavigate the patents, the trademarks, and the intellectual property.
- Michael Gerber
#Business
#Life
#Product
#Understand
When you consider how many people are really not good at communication in general and interviewing in specific, it's no wonder that many companies struggle to build high-quality partnerships - or even staffs.
- Michael Gerber
#Communication
#Good
#People
#Struggle
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.
- Michael Gerber
#Because
#Business
#Rather
#Than
#Your
The challenge of any business owner is not only to keep the saw sharp, but also to know if you even have a need for such a tool.
- Michael Gerber
#Business
#Challenge
#Know
#Need
#Sharp
As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You've dreamed of the 'right' ones, you've projected 'real' ones for the banker and the investor, and, secretly, you've imagined how life can be if you can reach the ones you've set.
- Michael Gerber
#Business
#Goals
#Life
#Real
#Right
If you are with five successful people, then you are the sixth successful person. The reverse of this is true as well, so who are you hanging out with?
- Michael Gerber
#People
#Person
#Successful People
#True
There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.
- Michael Gerber
#Always
#Better
#Car
#Looking
#More
Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities - whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.
- Michael Gerber
#Business
#Growth
#Own
#Path
#Success
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