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Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.
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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.
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Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
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I believe the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.
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Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.
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The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.
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Systems run the business and people run the systems.
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If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.