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
I am upset with the effect that both of these issues have had on the public,
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.
I was uncomfortable with the timing, ... We were getting millions less from the federal government for Medicaid and having to search for funds to restore some of those cuts and I just did not think it was right to put a pay raise on the board that would cost tens of millions of dollars.
Many residents have grown more cynical about government, ... Sure, I want my constituents to feel good about me as their legislator, but we have to do something to restore the public's faith in government.
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.
A pay increase of 5 percent is more than justified. It would compensate for losses we've had in the past and I'd like to be able to buy the everyday things I've put off for years, like a new TV.
The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.
A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.
Systems run the business and people run the systems.
If everybody's doing everything, then who's accountable for anything?
The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. 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.
Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.
The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
A martial arts practice hall, a dojo, is a place you go to practice being the best you can be. But the true combat in a dojo is not between one person and another as most people believe it to be. The true combat in a martial arts practice hall is between the people within ourselves.