If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.

Systems run the business and people run the systems.

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.

Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.

Building a World Class Company is a commitment to the integration of passion, purpose, and practice.

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.

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.