Mba Quotes - Page 2

• It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Business, Mba Programs, Practice

  Henry Mintzberg (2009). “Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes of people who don't have a high school diploma, don't even speak English, and offer them a home at zero percent down, that doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense.

  Ramin Bahrani

  Running, Zero, School

  "99 Homes director Ramin Bahrani on his dream debate between Trump and the Pope". Interview with Charles Bramesco, www.avclub.com. October 1, 2015.

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• I got my MBA at Burberry, but I will get my PhD at Apple.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Apples, Phds, Burberry

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• I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.

  Amish Tripathi

  School, Medicine, Engineering

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• I've been among their critics [MBA programs]. Much of what I've seen in business schools is quite non-rigorous. Anecdotal histories are stretched to illustrate favored slogans. Evidence of their effectiveness is similarly anecdotal.

  Charles R. Morris

  School, Mba Programs, Effectiveness

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• My daughter has fulfilled all of my dreams, because she has a BA and MBA in business. She's both a financial analyst and a plus-size model. She has the best of both worlds because, in modeling, you have to have something to fall back on.

  Beverly Johnson

  Daughter, Dream, Fall

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple doesn't make blenders. There's a reason Haagen-Dazs doesn't sell meat. And there's a reason drug companies should focus on saving and improving lives - not jeopardizing them.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Apples, Focus, Drug

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• This is true even in organizations that are very focused on analysis and quantitative measurement, even among people who think of themselves as smart in an MBA sense. In highly successful change efforts, people find ways to help others see the problems or solutions in ways that influence emotions, not just thought.

  John P. Kotter

  Smart, Successful, Helping Others

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2013). “The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations”, p.12, Harvard Business Press

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• I was a beast in college. I worked hard and I played hard. I was relentless learning about business. I actually snuck into MBA classes my freshman and sophomore years. I wanted to challenge myself to see how I compared to the smartest kids at Indiana University so I was 18 and pretended I was an MBA student.

  Mark Cuban

  Kids, College, Years

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.

  Warren Farrell

  Technology, Men, Safety

  "Are Women Earning More Than Men?". www.forbes.com. May 12, 2006.

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• From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they don’t have to face. They are not just a nuisance. As a collective they are dangerous. When men capable of murder receive the affection of engineers and MBAs, it makes them potentially far more lethal.

  Manu Joseph

  Distance, Men, Support

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• If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

  Mark Cuban

  Choices, Entrepreneur, Investing

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• When it comes to success in business, an MBA degree is optional. But a GSD, which is only earned by Getting Stuff Done, is required.

  Christine Comaford-Lynch

  Business Success, Degrees, Done

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• I really had to decide why I was writing. I had no interest in going back to law; I very briefly - for about six hours - considered going to get my MBA, but in the end, I realized that the only work I really wanted to do was write.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, Law, Six

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• My characteristics [of Ideal Black Man.] aren't as specific. I'm more general. I'm more like, I have to be able to talk to him. You know, we have to have good communications. He has to be interested in the world. You know what I mean. Like interested in learning and adventurous and curious, 'cause that's what I am. He has to be passionate about something. And it would be nice if he had a job. It's not like he has to have an MBA.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Jobs, Nice, Communication

  Source: www.today.com

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• I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA program at Columbia who were going into writing and filmmaking and everything, I said, "When I tried to think of what to say, the only subject I thought was appropriate for people doing what you're going to do is rejection." That's what it's all about.

  Kevin Sessums

  Writing, Thinking, Mba Programs

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• Sometimes during the two-year curriculum, every MBA student ought to hear it clearly stated that numbers, techniques, and analysis are all side matters. What is central to business is the joy of creating.

  Peter Robinson

  Business, Creating, Numbers

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• Tommy moved on. "Lash, your people have been oppressed for hundreds of years. It's time to strike back. Look, you don't have your MBA yet - they haven't completely juiced you of your usefulness yet. Would Martin Luther King back down from this challenge? Malcolm X? James Brown? Don't you have a dream? Don't you feel good, like you knew that you would, now?

  Christopher Moore

  Dream, Kings, Years

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• Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

  Andrew Mason

  Cutting, Hair, People

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