Quotes About Leadership

Mature company is founded on a broader perspective, an entrepreneurial perspective, a more intelligent point of view. About building a business that works not because of you but without you.

1. Your Primary Aim 2. Your Strategic Objective 3. Your Organizational Strategy 4. Your Management Strategy 5. Your People Strategy 6. Your Marketing Strategy 7. Your Systems Strategy

Because, the moment you chose to start a small business, Sarah, you unwittingly chose to play a significantly larger game than any game you had ever played before.

Said another way, the Entrepreneurial Model has less to do with what's done in a business and more to do with how it's done. The commodity isn't what's important—the way it's delivered is. When The Entrepreneur creates the model

To The Entrepreneur, the business is the product.

the key is to plan, envision, and articulate what you see in the future both for yourself and for your employees. Because if you don't articulate it—I mean, write it down, clearly, so others can understand it—

the typical small business owner is only 10 percent Entrepreneur, 20 percent Manager, and 70 percent Technician.

The purpose of going into business is to get free of a job so you can create jobs for other people.

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! "And, besides, that's not the purpose of going into business. "The purpose of going into business is to get free of a job so you can create jobs for other people.

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job.

Most business founders believe that the success of a business resides in the success of the product it sells.

Unfortunately, personalities, good feelings, goodwill, and luck aren't the only ingredients of a successful organization; alone, they are the recipe for chaos and disaster.

Orchestration is the elimination of discretion, or choice, at the operating level of your business.

The system runs the business. The people run the system.

He was running the business for him, not for me.

The purpose of going into business is to get free of a job so you can create jobs for other people. "The purpose of going into business is to expand beyond your existing horizons.

If The Entrepreneur lives in the future, The Manager lives in the past. Where The Entrepreneur craves control, The Manager craves order. Where The Entrepreneur thrives on change, The Manager compulsively clings to the status quo.

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Don't you see? If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job.

La mayoría de las empresas consideran que las personas son un problema.

productive and happy as possible. "And if I only indulge my preferences, I will never be able to replace myself with anyone other than another owner, someone just like me, someone with

The Entrepreneur's boundary is a function of how many managers he can engage in pursuit of his vision.

The first thing that surprised me when I came to work here," the Manager said, "was that the owner took me seriously.

And that was the second thing that surprised me when I came to work here," the Manager continued. "How seriously the Boss took the operation of this hotel.