Build your business on a sane foundation(Rating: 5)
I found this book to be a great read. Having been involved in starting a business and many of the heart aches that have come along, this book address many issues that everyone is likely to come across in most business.

For everyone that believes that it is important to keep a personal educational library, this is one of books that has the potential to create a Paradigm Shift in the way to conduct things within your business. Such things include: overall organization, policy, strategy, automation, people management, and more.

This book may not give you the full detail of what you may require in your business or endeavor, but will set the foundation of how to structure things optimally.

After having read E-myth revisited, I see more people daily in need of this valuable information. If you are serious about your business, how it operates, how much free time your have; This one is well worth your time.

Great Book(Rating: 5)
This book is a must reading for anyone going into business for them selves. I found out i am not crazy just a man with a vision.

Great for the Small Business Owner(Rating: 5)
My brother recommended this book to me. I was sceptical at first, however after getting into it there are some really good "nuggets" of information here. The story line with the example small biz owner was OK for me, but for others it may not like it. I did get some great insight and food for thought here. Has made me really rethink how my small business runs. Am planning on using many of the ideas to make my business better. Highly recommend.

Create a World of Your Own - In Business, In Life, In Love, In Everything(Rating: 5)
"Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It"

The problem with small businesses is that most people work in it, rather than on it. People turn what was once a labor of love into a love of labor. They focus so much on trying to capture the moment that they stop being in the moment.

Gerber, the world's number one small business guru, points out that there are three key roles one must master to create a successful system: the entrepreneur (the visionary), the manager (the planner), and the technician (the doer). He shows us how to create a step-by-step turn-key franchise that leverages the power of a strategic system to make a world of our own.

This book transformed my life and my businesses to create replicable, scalable models that would succeed on their own. In the past, I wanted to do everything on my own. Because the companies relied on me to succeed, they could not function without me.

This book shows you how to build lasting legacies that allows others to experience your version of the world.

My life transformed with martial arts, philosophy, and psychology at 12. The next revolution happened when I was 20.

I never realized how businesses and martial arts are exactly alike until I read this quote in The E-Myth, which was taken from Joe Hyams, who wrote the book Zen in the Martial Arts.

"A dojo is miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves -- our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully. It is a place where we can learn a great deal in a short time about who we are and how we react in the world. The conflicts that take place inside the dojo help us handle conflicts that take place outside. The total concentration and discipline required to study martial arts carries over to daily life. The activity in the dojo calls on us to constantly attempt new things, so it is also a source of learning -- in Zen terminology, a source of self-enlightenment."

Gerber says, "That is exactly what a small business is!"

In the land of fools, Gerb is Genius(Rating: 1)
As others have said, this book is just one long commercial for Gerber's own business... and it worked, apparently. The capstone class for my major included this book as one of the required texts; the entire semester was spent listening to Gerber blow his own horn with Sarah the pie baker at her side... at least, that's what I heard. After listening to a few hours worth of this fraud (dare I say con-man?) and his obnoxious, annoying way of speaking about his even more annoying (generic, bland, unfounded) "insights" into a world of business that has no basis in the real world, I stayed home and got stoned instead... and I still got an A in the class, because when it came to the tests on this guy and his ideas, all I had to do was pick the most self-absorbed, pompous, condescending, Narcissistic answers and they were invariably the "right ones" according to my professor, who bought into all this B.S.

Whew, that was a run-on sentence... much like Gerber's. If you're unfortunate enough to have to listen to the audio version of the book or any of this guy speeches, he can speak for 5 minutes without pausing to breath, or even think.