Michael Gerber
Michael Gerber
Michael Gerberis best known as the author of the Barry Trotter series, Sunday Times best-selling parodies of the Harry Potter books. Before becoming a novelist, Gerber contributed humor to The Yale Record, The New Yorker,The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, NPR and Saturday Night Live, among many other venues. He is an alumnus of Yale and Oak Park River Forest High School...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 June 1969
CountryUnited States of America
The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities.
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!
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.
What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true?
I believe 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.
What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?
With no clear picture of how you wish your life to be, how on earth are you going to live it?
Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.
Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.
Organize around business functions, not people. Build systems within each business function. Let systems run the business and people run the systems. People come and go but the systems remain constant.
If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.
The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.
You have to see the pattern, understand the order and experience the vision.