The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.

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.

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.

Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

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.