An MBA doesn’t impress me. A GSD does. GSD = Gets Stuff Done. — Christine Comaford-Lynch Copy Share Image
When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA. — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs. — Felix Rohatyn Copy Share Image
You don't see a lot of MBAs as CEOs. The MBAs tend to get hired by the CEOs. — Michael Ellsberg Copy Share Image
When it comes to success in business, an MBA degree is optional. But a GSD, which is only earned by Getting Stuff… — Christine Comaford-Lynch Copy Share Image
If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time.… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
You don't need a business plan. You don't need to have an MBA. All you need is a great idea. Anything is… — Ron Conway Copy Share Image
I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they don’t have to face.… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Sometimes during the two-year curriculum, every MBA student ought to hear it clearly stated that numbers, techniques, and analysis are all side… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
“Cliché: "The MBA changed my life." What it really means: "A fantastic career, a great social life and a healthy bank balance...three… — Sameer Kamat Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I was a typical head of a company. Most people that run big companies come out of sales and… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
Hire extremely independent, intelligent, and passionate people, not necessarily "experts." Maybe three or four of my employees have MBAs, and those guys… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
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… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;" What kind of business should I start?" Incidentially, it has a twin that also… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Tommy moved on. "Lash, your people have been oppressed for hundreds of years. It's time to strike back. Look, you don't have… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Successful entrepreneurs may hate hierarchies and structures and try to destroy them. They may garner the disapproval of MBAs for their creativity… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
My daughter has fulfilled all of my dreams, because she has a BA and MBA in business. She's both a financial analyst… — Beverly Johnson Copy Share Image
Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes… — Ramin Bahrani Copy Share Image
I really had to decide why I was writing. I had no interest in going back to law; I very briefly -… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food,… — Andrew Mason Copy Share Image
MBA students come out with: 'My staff is my most important asset.' Bullshit. Staff is usually your biggest cost. We all employ… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
We [in the MBA] get to create a situation where we're really choosing the students to join our environment based upon what… — Robert J. Dolan Copy Share Image
This is true even in organizations that are very focused on analysis and quantitative measurement, even among people who think of themselves… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
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