Quotes about Business School

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times. Votes: 3

My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance. Votes: 3

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School. Votes: 3

When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader. Votes: 3

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist. Votes: 3

There's a rule they don't teach you at Harvard Business School. It is: If anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess. Votes: 3

In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world. Votes: 3

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) Votes: 3

The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy ... in the end I'm excited to see that happen. So pray for Harvard Business School if you wouldn't mind. Votes: 3

I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries. Votes: 3

The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community. Votes: 3

Sometimes i feel that i am unlucky due to couldn't enroll in the Harvard Business School but at least by this encouragement that i enrolled in MBA in Human resource management program whereas i grown as a leader and build the team in the field of HRM through motivation. Votes: 3

In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job. Votes: 3

I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined. Votes: 3

I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School. Votes: 2

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market. Votes: 1

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers. Votes: 1

Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The way most people approach business - and the way they mostly teach in business school - involves the analytical mind. It divides it up and looks at parts in isolation. Votes: 1

I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative. Votes: 1

It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial. Votes: 1

I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects. Votes: 1

I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But I ended up going to business school because I thought I could ultimately get to where I wanted to go faster that way. Votes: 1

I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.' Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Don't go to business school. Votes: 0

I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt. Votes: 0

I started my business with my best friend from high school. Votes: 0

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid. Votes: 0

Well... I graduated from the business school of Northumberland University in Newcastle. Votes: 0

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world. Votes: 0

I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it. Votes: 0

Business is the school of life. Success in business requires success in living. Votes: 0

I guess when you go to business school you never turn business off. Votes: 0

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas. Votes: 0

I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school. Votes: 0

In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business. Votes: 0

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles. Votes: 0

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law. Votes: 0

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores. Votes: 0

I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it. Votes: 0

When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed. Votes: 0

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business. Votes: 0

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act. Votes: 0

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that? Votes: 0

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business. Votes: 0

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school. Votes: 0

A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school. Votes: 0

I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business. Votes: 0

In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on. Votes: 0

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings. Votes: 0

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school. Votes: 0

Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry. Votes: 0

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce. Votes: 0

When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport. Votes: 0

So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age. Votes: 0

When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again. Votes: 0

I do know that when I look around in show business, I see a lot of people who were in my drama class in high school. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Since I was small, when I was in school, I was a business girl. I would buy things to sell, gums for three cents, things like that. Votes: 0

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education. Votes: 0

We made a plan at school to meet in her garage and kiss. It was like this little business deal. I kissed her and then I ran home Votes: 0

I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs. Votes: 0

I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight. Votes: 0

I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like. Votes: 0

When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi. Votes: 0

But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years. Votes: 0

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on. Votes: 0

ACID Kreationz was founded in 2008. I formed this business with the purpose of paying my university tuition because my teaching salary would not be able to cover school payments. Votes: 0

The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think many people go to business school and learn ways to play it safe, ensuring that they avoid some of the pain that entrepreneurs endure while taking less calculated risks. Votes: 0

I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish. Votes: 0

In the first 27 years of my life, I never had written a single non-technical word. I went to engineering college and went to business school. I never knew I could write fiction of any form. Votes: 0