Business School Quotes

• 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 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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• Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life

  John C. Maxwell

  School, Successful, Simple

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• Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.

  Josh Kaufman

  School, Successful, People

  Josh Kaufman (2010). “The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business”, p.46, Penguin

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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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• Business is essentially applied rationality:
  a systematic process of thinking that produces a real-world result. Instead of mortgaging your life to go to business school, it's possible to dramatically increase your knowledge of business on your own time and with little cost - without setting foot inside a classroom.

  Josh Kaufman

  Real, School, Thinking

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• If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

  Mark McCormack

  Reading, School, Gone

  Mark H. McCormack (2016). “What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School”, p.9, Profile Books

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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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• 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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• My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

  Melinda Gates

  Running, School, Marketing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• From what I've seen, you either get grounded in that kind of positive thinking early on in life or you don't. Establishing priorities and using your time well aren't things you can pick up at the Harvard Business School. Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

  Lee Iacocca

  School, Positive Thinking, Skills

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.21, Bantam

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• Business schools are failing to teach the students about the risks of market failures. We need to include some material on market failures in the core of curriculum.

  Pankaj Ghemawat

  School, Risk, Needs

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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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• 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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• Don't go to business school.

  Paul Hawken

  Business, School, School Bus

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• You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

  Alan Alda

  Business, School, Want

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• One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Educational, School, People

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• I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.

  Andrew Tobias

  New York, School, Editors

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• I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.

  Alexa Vega

  School, Nyu, Goes On

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.

  Nico Tortorella

  Art, School, College

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• Some of you think that attending a top business school gives you an advantage. Others think that street smarts and hands-on experience are the best way to get ahead. Additionally, women have a tougher time in the workplace, or so they say. Let's find out.

  Donald Trump

  Smart, School, Thinking

  Source: perezhilton.com

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• I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.

  Melinda Gates

  Daughter, School, Kids

  Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

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• I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to bootstrap a restaurant with just a Visa card and a $20,000 line of credit. Everyone told me restaurants were hard work (and they were right! I have so much respect for anyone in the restaurant business). I ran the restaurant for two years, sold a franchise, decided to change paths, and sold the whole operation at a modest profit.

  Ryan Holmes

  Hard Work, School, Years

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• I actually went on lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and all the business schools eight years ago, explaining what the implications were and how the platforms could be powerful in creating the narrative of your brand and mobilizing your life so that you become humanized as well. I understood that and thought that was really empowering, not only to artists, but to brands as well and in general.

  MC Hammer

  Powerful, School, Artist

  Source: www.ebony.com

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