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E-Myth \ 'e-,'mith\ n 1: the entrepreneurial myth: the myth that most people who start small businesses are entrepreneurs 2: the fatal assumption that an individual who understands the technical work of a business can successfully run a business that does that technical work

Voted #1 business book by Inc. 500 CEOs.

An instant classic, this revised and updated edition of the phenomenal bestseller dispels the myths about starting your own business. Small business consultant and author Michael E. Gerber, with sharp insight gained from years of experience, points out how common assumptions, expectations, and even technical expertise can get in the way of running a successful business.

Gerber walks you through the steps in the life of a business—from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature entrepreneurial perspective: the guiding light of all businesses that succeed—and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise. Most importantly, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business.

The E-Myth Revisited will help you grow your business in a productive, assured way.

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E-Myth \ 'e-,'mith\ n 1: the entrepreneurial myth: the myth that most people who start small businesses are entrepreneurs 2: the fatal assumption that an individual who understands the technical work of a business can successfully run a business that does that technical work

Voted #1 business book by Inc. 500 CEOs.

An instant classic, this revised and updated edition of the phenomenal bestseller dispels the myths about starting your own business. Small business consultant and author Michael E. Gerber, with sharp insight gained from years of experience, points out how common assumptions, expectations, and even technical expertise can get in the way of running a successful business.

Gerber walks you through the steps in the life of a business—from entrepreneurial infancy through adolescent growing pains to the mature entrepreneurial perspective: the guiding light of all businesses that succeed—and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise. Most importantly, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business.

The E-Myth Revisited will help you grow your business in a productive, assured way.

About the Author

Michael E. Gerber is a true legend of entrepreneurship. The editors of INC magazine called him "The World's #1 Small Business Guru." He is Co-founder and Chairman of the Michael E. Gerber Companies—a group of highly unique enterprises dedicated to creating world-class start-ups and entrepreneurs in every industry and economy. The Gerber Companies transforms the way small business owners grow their enterprises and has evolved into an empire over its history of nearly three decades.

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The Entrepreneurial Myth

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
--Aldous Huxley

The E-Myth is the myth of the entrepreneur. It runs deep in this country and rings of the heroic.

Picture the typical entrepreneur and Herculean pictures come to mind: a man or woman standing alone, wind-blown against the elements, bravely defying insurmountable odds, climbing sheer faces of treacherous rock--all to realize the dream of creating a business of one's own.

The legend reeks of nobility, of lofty, extra-human efforts, of a prodigious commitment to larger-than-life ideals.

Well, while there are such people, my experience tells me they are rare.

Of the thousands of businesspeople I have had the opportunity to know and work with over the past two decades, few were real entrepreneurs when I met them.

The vision was all but gone in most.

The zest for the climb had turned into a terror of heights.

The face of the rock had become something to cling to rather than to scale.

Exhaustion was common, exhilaration rare.

But hadn't all of them once been entrepreneurs? After all, they had started their own business. There must have been some dream that drove them to take such a risk.

But, if so, where was the dream now? Why had it faded?

Where was the entrepreneur who had started the business?

The answer is simple: the entrepreneur had only existed for a moment.

A fleeting second in time.

And then it was gone. In most cases, forever.

If the entrepreneur survived at all, it was only as a myth that grew out of a misunderstanding about who goes into business and why.

A misunderstanding that has cost us dearly in this country--more than we can possibly imagine--in lost resources, lost opportunities, and wasted lives.

That myth, that misunderstanding, I call the E-Myth, the myth of the entrepreneur.

And it finds its roots in this country in a romantic belief that small businesses are started by entrepreneurs, when, in fact, most are not.

Then who does start small businesses in America?

And why?

The Entrepreneurial Seizure

To understand the E-Myth and the misunderstanding at its core, let's take a closer look at the person who goes into business. Not after he goes into business, but before.

For that matter, where were you before you started your business? And, if you're thinking about going into business, where are you now?

Well, if you're like most of the people I've known, you were working for somebody else.

What were you doing?

Probably technical work, like almost everybody who goes into business.

You were a carpenter, a mechanic, or a machinist.

You were a bookkeeper or a poodle clipper; a drafts-person or a hairdresser; a barber or a computer programmer; a doctor or a technical writer; a graphic artist or an accountant; an interior designer or a plumber or a salesperson.

But whatever you were, you were doing technical work.

And you were probably damn good at it.

But you were doing it for somebody else.

Then, one day, for no apparent reason, something happened. It might have been the weather, a birthday, or your child's graduation from high school. It might have been the paycheck you received on a Friday afternoon, or a sideways glance from the boss that just didn't sit right. It might have been a feeling that your boss didn't really appreciate your contribution to the success of his business.

It could have been anything; it doesn't matter what. But one day, for apparently no reason, you were suddenly stricken with an Entrepreneurial Seizure. And from that day on your life was never to be the same.

Inside your mind it sounded something like this: "What am I doing this for? Why am I working for this guy? Hell, I know as much about this business as he does. If it weren't for me, he wouldn't have a business. Any dummy can run a business. I'm working for one."

And the moment you paid attention to what you were saying and really took it to heart, your fate was sealed.

The excitement of cutting the cord became your constant companion.

The thought of independence followed you everywhere.

The idea of being your own boss, doing your own thing, singing your own song, became obsessively irresistible.

Once you were stricken with an Entrepreneurial Seizure, there was no relief.

You couldn't get rid of it.

You had to start your own business.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0887307280
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Business
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 14, 2004
Edition ‏ : ‎ Updated,Subsequent
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780887307287
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0887307287
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.65 x 8 inches
Part of series ‏ : ‎ E-myth
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Michael E. Gerber is a true legend of entrepreneurship. Inc. Magazine called him "the World's #1 Small Business Guru." He started over 40-plus years ago addressing a significant need in the small business market: businesses owned primarily by people with technical skills but few business skills, and no place to go to get meaningful help.

Over the years, Michael E. Gerber's companies have helped hundreds of thousands of small business owner-clients to successfully transform their businesses into world-class operations.

Mr. Gerber's E-Myth books include: The Most Successful Small Business in the World, Awakening the Entrepreneur Within, The E-Myth Enterprise, The E-Myth Mastery, The E-Myth Manager, along with co-authored E-Myth Vertical books: The E-Myth Attorney, The E-Myth Accountant, The E-Myth Optometrist, The E-Myth Chiropractor, The E-Myth Financial Advisor, The E-Myth Landscape Contractor, The E-Myth Architect, The E-Myth Real Estate Brokerage, The E-Myth Insurance Store, The E-Myth Dentist, The E-Myth Nutritionist, The E-Myth Bookkeeper, The E-Myth Veterinarian, and the first of Gerber's newest C-Level series: The E-Myth Chief Financial Officer. Soon to be released, The E-Myth Real Estate Agent.

To find out more visit:http://michaelegerbercompanies.com/ & http://www.beyondemyth.com

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Mark R. LePage
How The E-Myth Revisited Book Helped My Architecture Firm Succeed
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2014
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On April 8, 1999, I discovered a book that changed the way I view business; a book that helped me to realize that running a successful architecture firm required so much more than designing great architecture. It taught me that inside the owner of every small firm exists a battle among The Entrepreneur, The Manager and The Technician, and that if we don’t attend to the needs of each, our firms are destined for failure.

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It inspired me to build Fivecat Studio as a Franchise Prototype, even though we knew selling our business systems as a franchise was never a planned goal. The systems we created for the firm have allowed us to thrive and have given us the freedom we need to balance the requirements of our firm with the responsibilities of our family. It is the book that inspired me to begin to work “on my business, rather than in my business.”

This book, written by Michael E. Gerber, had a major influence in the success of our firm and continues to guide many of our business decisions to this day. Fivecat Studio has been in business for 15 years. Annmarie and I experienced the startup pains of “infancy”, the hard earned success of “adolescence” and recently, with our return to the home studio and the launch of our new virtual business model, we are surprisingly “getting small again”.

As I re-read the words of this inspirational how-to guide for successful small business, it is shocking to me how accurate Mr. Gerber is as he describes the different stages of the typical small business. As I read it, I can follow the path of Fivecat Studio through good decisions and bad, through ups and downs and I can see the next steps we need to take.

I’ve read The E-Myth so many times that I have lost count. A quick peek at my Amazon order history documents that I have given this book to no fewer than 10 friends and acquaintances as a gift from one business owner to another, struggling to find a life of fulfillment and freedom.

Michael Gerber breaks his book into three sections.

In Part I, The E-Myth and the American Small Business, he defines the E-Myth as the Entrepreneurial Myth and discusses how most small businesses are the result of an Entrepreneurial Seizure. He says,

“The technician suffering from an Entrepreneurial Seizure takes the work he loves to do and turns it into a job.”

Does that sound familiar? How many architects do you know who have launched their own firms, with dreams of “doing it better” than their former employer and found themselves way over their heads in all the responsibilities of running a small business?

Gerber describes the three phases of business; Infancy, Adolescence and Maturity. He explains why it is so important to build a Mature company from the start.

“A 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. And because it starts that way, it is more likely to continue that way. And therein the true difference between an Adolescent company, where everything is left up to chance, and a Mature company, where there is a vision against which the present is shaped.”

“Successful companies don’t end up as Mature companies. They start that way.”

In Part II, The Turn-Key Revolution: A New View of Business, Mr. Gerber introduces the concept of the Franchise Prototype and the concept of “working on your business, not in it.”

He encourages us to create systems which allow for predictable results and happy clients.

“The system runs the business. The people run the system. The system integrates all the elements required to make a business work. It transforms a business into an organism, driven by integrity of its parts, all working in concert toward a realized objective. And, with its Prototype as its progenitor, it works like nothing else before it.”

Many architects I know, including Annmarie at first, reject the thought of building systems for their firms. They feel that the routines and consistency of such will limit their creativity, that they will lose their flexibility to create amazing works of architecture. When, in fact, systems will do just the opposite. When everything else required to run a successful business is set to run on “autopilot”, an architect will actually have more time and flexibility to be an architect.

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“Great businesses are not built by extraordinary people, but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things. But for ordinary people to do extraordinary things, a system – ‘a way of doing things’ – is absolutely essential in order to compensate for the disparity between the skills your people have and the skills your business needs if it is to produce consistent results.”

This is also the section where some readers become frustrated with Gerber’s example of McDonald’s as a model for small business success. I know, as an architect, it is difficult to see the connection between the home of the Big Mac and our aspiring high-end residential design firms. Please trust me and read the book to the end. You will not regret learning the lessons he teaches using the examples of this successful business franchise.

Here is some of what Gerber says about McDonald’s;

“It delivers exactly what we have come to expect of it every single time. So that’s why I look upon McDonalds as a model for every small business. Because it can do in its more than 14,000 stores what most of can’t do in one! And to me, that’s what integrity is all about. It’s about doing what you say you will do, and, if you can’t, learning how. If that’s the measure of an incredible business – and I believe it is – then there is no more incredible business than McDonalds. Who among us small business owners can say we do things as well?”

Part III, Building a Small Business That Works is a step by step, how-to guide for a successful small business. He leads us through a fully developed Business Development Program and describes the many strategies required for small business success.

The E-Myth Revisited is not only your answer to building a successful small business, it’s also very entertaining. Gerber structures the information around a narrative about a woman named Sarah struggling with her small business named All About Pies. Many readers will see ourselves in Sarah as she evolves from frustrated Technician into a successful small business owner.

When I posted recently that The E-Myth was my favorite business book of all time, many from the Entrepreneur Architect Community reached out and asked me why.

In short… If you take action to implement the lessons Michael Gerber teaches, The E-Myth Revisited will take your firm to places you only imagined. I know it will work for you, because it has already worked for me.

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Mayra
Awesome book
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2025
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Easy to read and understand. I would recommend it to my friends. I would read other books from this author.

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Ben
Are you done working for someone else? If so, you may want to pick up this book.
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Are you done working for someone else? If so, you may want to
pick up this book. This is helpful to anyone considering the
entrepreneurial path. And I referred to this book when I was
setting up my first franchise location.
Michael E. Gerber and his company are out to get you inspired,
and to give you insight and tools to improve your small business
entrepreneurial journey. That is the bread and butter of this book
— and of the consulting business set up by Michael in the wake of
this book’s success.
And this book has some tremendous lessons about business that
are good to believe in and to strive to follow. The first few pages
had me locked in as they aligned with me at the time — I was done
working for someone else, and I knew that if I took off to just be
a technical small business owner, then I’d be just as much a slave
as before when I worked for someone. I needed a better way. At
the time, this book helped me find that.
The book focuses on the idea that you can “buy” into a business
model that is successfully out there operating. And the idea here
is that you buy into what you want to do. So that the business-in-
a-box idea of the franchise, for example, can help you by making
it easy to “operate” the admin side of the business. That way you
can focus on the actual doing of the thing that attracted you to
business for yourself in the first place. That’s all.

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Dr. C.H.E. Sadaphal
If you’re thinking about starting (or re-starting) a business, start here to ensure you get on the right track.
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2015
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In short, The E Myth Revisited explains why most small businesses fail, and then illustrates an easy-to-follow roadmap for owners and leaders to get out of trouble and drive toward success.

The sobering fact is that an overwhelming majority of businesses fail in the first five years of operation, and these failures tend to follow a pattern. Gerber illustrates that successful businesses excel not by happenstance but by following a particular model that has proven to work—franchises, with overwhelmingly high success rates at five years, are given as a prime example. The E Myth Revisited explains, in often broad and sometimes specific terms, the approach that is required for a business to not only persevere, but to prosper.

The book is divided into three parts. Part I exposes many of the myths that delude people into starting their own business. Here the author clarifies the three different personalities in business: the “technician,” the “manager,” and the “entrepreneur.” Gerber explains that new ventures are often started by “technicians” who make the mistake of thinking that being able to do some type of work (e.g. hairstylist) equates to an understanding of how that business is done (beauty salon). Part II takes a broad approach to explain the “Turn-Key Revolution” and the general tenets one needs in order to lay the foundation for a successful business prototype. Part III comprises the bulk of the book and provides the most detail. It has step-by-step systematic guides to cultivate and nurture success.

I think this book’s greatest value is establishing a universal blueprint that any person from any type of business can follow in order to steer their team and organization toward new heights. With this advice are some very valuable life lessons and pearls of wisdom. On a negative note, as with any other book that secondarily serves as propaganda, there are frequent references and “plugs” to the author’s own website and business services. Moreover, the author often diverts and has a conversation with “Sarah,” a fictional failed business owner who is guided toward the light. These sections are lacking in substance and are so full of fluff that I wanted to send Sarah away on a permanent vacation.

As a non-businessperson, this book is extremely easy to read, and the fact that it has no technical language whatsoever makes it accessible and worthwhile to anyone who either wants to launch a new venture or reboot an old one. Despite the fact that it’s 260+ pages, The E Myth Revisited is also a surprisingly quick read.

I am sure there are many paths to success in business, but Gerber makes a persuasive case for his prescriptions in this book.

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Sanjay Yadav (MapYourTech)
fantastic motivation accelerator
Reviewed in India on November 8, 2024
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I really found this book that can give motivation and act as an accelerator to your entrepreneurial journey.Strongly recommended to one who is thinking to do something and create an impact .

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The A B C to start a sustainable business
Reviewed in the Netherlands on October 29, 2018
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This book has been a real eye-opener and has completely changed my view on what a new business should look like. Mandatory reading for anyone looking to start his own company!

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Reviewed in Spain on December 18, 2023
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This is a great book for people running small businesses. It shows you how a lot of people start a business after working a full-time job and feeling they could do better by striking out on their own, but then face a lot of unexpected problems unrelated to their craft. It teaches you how to resolve this and how to work on your business instead of in your business, and how every business requires at least three roles, even if you are a solopreneur - the technician, the manager and the entrepreneur. This will not teach you how to manage money, get leads or acquire customers, but I would recommend this book to anyone who needs clarity on how to run their business more efficiently and with less stress, particularly people who are starting or running a business for the first time. It will show you how to properly think about it and give you a guide on the tasks you need to do to optimize it.

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Marco Lopez
Gerber eccellente!
Reviewed in Italy on April 2, 2018
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L'ho comprato un paio di anni fa e riletto recentemente.
E' uno dei libri di business che mi porto nel cuore da quando l'ho scoperto. Si rivolge ai piccoli imprenditori,quindi quasi tutti,e quindi quasi tutti dovrebbero leggerlo.
Usa la storia come metodo per introdurre i concetti fondamentali e alla base di tutto c'e' il consiglio,vero,profondo, utilissimo di iniziare la propria attivita' con un piano ben chiaro in testa, farsi i conti bene e per bene intendo bene e partire da subito con l'idea che nel lungo periodo bisogna arrivare a una standardizzazione del servizio, tirarsi fuori dall' equazione e iniziare la costruzione di un brand in franchising. Non significa rifondare Mc Donald, ma evitare di rompersi la schiena tutti i giorni per cinquat'anni cercando di sfondare il muro della propria produttivita' fisica con la testa.
Comprare cartaceo e regalare a chi ha un'attivita'.

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thierry legrand
Un livre utile et inspirant pour qui veut entreprendre.
Reviewed in France on December 3, 2019
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Ce n'est pas parce qu'on crée sa boîte qu'on a forcément l'envergure d'un entrepreneur. C'est même souvent le contraire. Ce livre en explique les raisons et décrit des principes très clairs pour qui veut passer du stade d'artisan ou freelance à celui de manager d'une PME.
Si vous avez envie de créer votre petit business parce que vous avez un talent particulier, lisez d'abord ce livre.
Si vous avez déjà créé votre petite entreprise et que les journées s'allongent à l'infinie, il est grand temps de lire ce livre.
Pour les autres, lisez aussi ce livre car les principes qu'il contient peuvent également être appliqués au sein de grosses entreprises.
J'ai lu la version anglaise mais comme je n'arrête pas de le prêter, je me suis racheté la version française.

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How The E-Myth Revisited Book Helped My Architecture Firm Succeed

Awesome book

Are you done working for someone else? If so, you may want to pick up this book.

If you’re thinking about starting (or re-starting) a business, start here to ensure you get on the right track.

Perfect

fantastic motivation accelerator

The A B C to start a sustainable business

Great Book

Gerber eccellente!

Un livre utile et inspirant pour qui veut entreprendre.