Business School Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool.

  Arianna Huffington

  Creativity, School, Opposites

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• In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

  Peter Drucker

  Education, School, World

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• The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Book, School

  "Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1992.

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• Any path you take, if you commit with passion, you can be successful. By going to business school, certain opportunities may open up to you sooner. But it's who you are and how you take advantage of your opportunities that matter.

  Dan Rosensweig

  Passion, School, Successful

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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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• 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 believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Believe, School, Character

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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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• Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

  Edward de Bono

  Believe, School, Data

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Don't go to business school.

  Paul Hawken

  Business, School, School Bus

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