Business School Quotes

• The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

  Edward de Bono

  Preparation, Mind, Executives

  Edward de Bono (2017). “Teach Yourself To Think”, p.115, Penguin UK

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• I guess when you go to business school you never turn business off.

  Mindy Kaling

  School, Turns

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact, be better off knowing nothing of these. That, of course, is not the prevailing view at most business schools, whose finance curriculum tends to be dominated by such subjects. In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business, and How to Think About Market Prices.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, School, Thinking

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.152, John Wiley & Sons

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• In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.

  Kevin Kelly

  School, Self, Entrepreneur

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• If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

  Richard Branson

  School, Entrepreneur, Waste

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• It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Leadership, School, Ethics

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• Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

  Tom Selleck

  School, Class, Guilt

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• I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

  Anita Roddick

  School, Care, Stuff

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• There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

  Edwin Land

  School, Excess, Harvard

  Edwin Land's comment after a 1977 Polaroid shareholder's meeting as quoted in Danny Miller "The Icarus Paradox: How Exceptional Companies Bring About Their Own Downfall; New Lessons in the Dynamics of Corporate Success, Decline, and Renewal"(p. 126), 1990.

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• At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Country, School, America

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• Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

  P. Chidambaram

  School, Harvard, Socialist

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• When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

  P. Chidambaram

  School, Leader, India

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• I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.

  Christie Hefner

  School, Harvard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a Harvard Business School thing that says, 'Every 10 years you should replant yourself,' and the only way to keep young is to learn new things and keep curious.

  Sherry Lansing

  School, Years, Way

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money, and making money, and lots and lots of money. It's just a different environment.

  Victoria Chang

  Writing, School, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.

  Steve Ballmer

  School

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• The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

  Mo Ibrahim

  Teaching, School, People

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• I never went to business school. I was just bumbling through a lot of my life. I was like the guy behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz.

  David Geffen

  School, Guy, Wizards

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• Hiring people with diverse backgrounds brings in a flexibility of thought and openness to new ways of doing things, as opposed to hiring clones from business schools who have been taught a codified way of doing business.

  Yvon Chouinard

  School, People, Way

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.199, Penguin

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• Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority of that is useless.

  Josh Kaufman

  School, Majority, Useless

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• Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

  Peter Singer

  School, Social Values, Long

  "Putting ethics before profits" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.

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• Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

  Henry Louis Gates

  School, Kids, Law

  "Henry Louis Gates Uncovers 'Faces Of America'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. February 17, 2010.

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• Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Success, School, Impact

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• The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, School

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