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" The Internet is fundamentally free, and when faced with the decision to use something free, we, as humans, always seek to grab all we can. "
Michael E. Gerber
Free
Seek
Internet
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" Be honest: if your pitch is 90 minutes and you only have 60 set aside for a business lunch or a cup of coffee, there is no way that you can give an honest representation of your company or products. You're lying to yourself and wasting your own time as well as that of your prospect or partner. "
Michael E. Gerber
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" If opening your own business is the dream, then it must start with a Dream - not only to understand what it is that you want to do, but also, how you are going to build something better than the same chaotic environment you just left. "
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" 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 E. Gerber
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Thought
" McDonalds. Apple. Starbucks. They were all small businesses, owned by entrepreneurs and people with vision. "
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" Your success has to be measured against yourself - a decade ago, last year, or yesterday. "
Michael E. Gerber
Year
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" Empirical and observational data along with a healthy dash of intuition often have to be combined as business owners begin to look outward, not inward, at what solutions they can provide to their customers. "
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Data
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" You cannot build a company or manage a life by chasing others; you have to find your success competing against yourself. There will always be a bigger fish. "
Michael E. Gerber
Yourself
Success
Find
" It is one thing to seek out new ways to grow your company and new potential streams of income from new services or products, but it is quite another to take on responsibilities that are far from your primary job as Entrepreneur. "
Michael E. Gerber
New
Job
Entrepreneur
" 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 E. Gerber
Design
Create
Build
" Build a company that changes the way things get done! "
Michael E. Gerber
Build
Way
Get
" No matter what, the entrepreneur must strive to be above average and, at the same time, understand what is driving those averages they are seeking to beat. Take the time to understand and test the metrics you are using, and then you can not only set the average, you can exceed it. "
Michael E. Gerber
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You
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" I don't know why the word 'solopreneur' is in our lexicon. Nobody can physically do it all by themselves, and more importantly, why would they want to? Being the sales team, the HR department, management, and production all by yourself is terrible. Period. "
Michael E. Gerber
Team
Yourself
Nobody
" There are three things that can be organized: time, space, and work. Note that, despite what many believe, you cannot organize people - you can only organize the work that people do. "
Michael E. Gerber
Time
You
Work
" Results transform the world, and a great dream creates results. That's what this thing we call 'business' is really all about. "
Michael E. Gerber
Results
Great
Dream
" 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 E. Gerber
Money
Hire
World
" More than a few studies have shown that the five people you spend the most time with represent you - so you need to decide - who do you want to be? "
Michael E. Gerber
Need
People
You
" People who lack the skill of discrimination tend to believe that everything is of relatively equal importance. "
Michael E. Gerber
Believe
People
Skill
" In my experience, most small businesses are worried about the client fulfillment - 'getting the Job done' - and lead generation far more than they are in how the sales process flows. "
Michael E. Gerber
Small
Process
Job
" Nobody knew they needed a smart phone, an automobile, or even a cheeseburger from a drive through window. "
Michael E. Gerber
Drive
Nobody
Phone
" 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 E. Gerber
Communication
Good
People
" The entrepreneur rarely thinks in terms of what he or she wants, but dreams about results - always results and nothing but results - that can solve someone else's problem or contribute to making someone else's life better. "
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Results
Better
Problem
" Steve Jobs didn't seek solace among minimum wage workers. He sought it from highly educated men and women who understood and shared his focus on growth, technology, and company-building. "
Michael E. Gerber
Focus
Men
Women
" Your Dream, Vision, Purpose, and Mission all come together when you bring products to market - so make sure you're bringing your best. "
Michael E. Gerber
Together
Purpose
Best
" Whether your dream is a $100,000 in sales or a million, the amount of work is likely the same - you'll still have 86,400 seconds each day, so why couldn't you imagine creating the company and enterprise that can fulfill every aspect of any dream you wish to have? "
Michael E. Gerber
Wish
Work
Day
" It's fashionable to use terms like 'sales funnels' to describe the sales process for many companies, and it is true that the funnel design is very appropriate for the digital world, but despite all the prose written on sales funnels and the like, my question is still the same - when do you close your sales, and how long does that take? "
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World
You
Design
" Strategic Work is all about the big questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Tactical Work is all about answers: This is the system we use to do each task. This is how we do it, how we measure it, how we monitor it. "
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Measure
Big
Work
" 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. "
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Success
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" No matter what your company does - build, manage, produce, import - as an owner, you can't avoid the hard work and skip straight to success. No class can give you that, no YouTube video can teach it, and no book can mark it off your list. "
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Work
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" A person who willingly goes into business for themselves - and intentionally seeks out 'solopreneurship' - is insane! "
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Business
Out
Insane
" Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo. "
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Learning
Free