Top 45 Business School Quotes

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

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.

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

I remember, the first time it struck me is I was an econ major at Stanford as an undergrad, and it struck me how few women were econ majors back in the ’70s. And then in business school how few women… And even then, I thought, ‘Gosh, this is really unfortunate.’

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.

It’s pretty challenging in a small country to develop a business school with a world-class reputation because of the problem of attracting a critical mass of top-class researchers.

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.

Between being governor and part of the Senate, one of the things I did was I held a chair at the business school at my alma mater, Indiana University. And I’d go to lecture the graduates, and I loved that, answering their questions. It was real; it was tangible, and it was making a difference every day.

I’m regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They’re the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.

I went to Huddersfield University Business School. That’s where I learned my trade.

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

The focus around Circle China is really cross-border payments. If I’m a parent in China and my son is studying at London Business School, I might want to send 500 RMB. I should be able to do that and have my child instantly receive it as pounds sterling, in the same way people do that with instant messages today.

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.

I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn’t particularly helpful.

The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads.

If I had done ‘Go, New York, Go’ for the Spurs, it might not have worked. It really taught me a lot about demographics and tastes and styles. I never went to business school, so that whole experience was my crash course in marketing, contracts, negotiations, and product launches.

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.

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.

If you go into business school and suggest firing a customer, they’ll kick you out of the building. But it’s so true in my experience. It allows you to identify the customers you really want to work with.

If you go to business school, and you put a product out there in the world, and it’s working, the logic is to keep putting the same product out there. And I think that really bumps up against the creative process – and moviemaking, generally. And I think that our company really pushes against that.

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

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.

I went to business school in my thirties.

As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand what growth was about. Back then, you had to ask a customer to pay some money. That was the most important thing in getting a company off the ground.

Isn’t it interesting that markets are not just perfect? In business school and economic theory, you learn all about those perfect markets, and there’s no such thing as a perfect market.

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.

I didn’t go to a business school. I didn’t really study it.

I spent five years running Manhattan GMAT helping young people get into business school.

You’re talking to a guy that graduated from business school by the skin of his teeth, only to crash and burn at his first consulting job. What about that C.V. makes me a good representative of Asian Americans and Canadians?

I went to business school, because I thought that’s where you had to go if you wanted to get rich.

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.

In high school, I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch, and once I graduated from business school at USC, I started a company with my partner and had a nine-to-seven job.

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

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

‘Savage’ is a trait that might get you into business school or retweeted 10,000 times. It’s what a kid might say after somebody does something awesome or gnarly or fierce: ‘Oh, that’s savage!’ It’s the skate park. It’s the high-school cafeteria. It’s the YouTube comments section.

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

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.

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.

I didn’t go to business school. I actually didn’t even graduate high school. I ended up with a GED. So everything that I’ve learned in business, I’ve learned through experience.

I was actually accepted into medical school in Italy. But then I wanted to come back and learn medicine in Germany. And while waiting, I decided to join a business school. I figured it would be useful for doctors to know some business as well!

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.

I ended up switching over to journalism in college. A few weeks into freshman year, I realized that business school wasn’t for me. And writing stories and reading and talking to people is something that I just enjoy doing, so I figured why not try to build up a post-basketball career with that.

Undergrad, for me, in college was really about, you know, how do I become a professional. But business school, for me, was how do I become the person that I’m meant to be.

All the lessons I learned from my grandfather from the day I was born until the day he passed away served me well, and I think about them and use them every day. It was much more valuable than any business school could have provided.

The only thing you need to set up a business school is a warm body and a piece of chalk.