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Business School Quotes

What business school teaches and what it doesn't.

These business school quotes question how much a formal Business curriculum actually prepares people, versus common sense, a lab, or a workshop.

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.

Quotes by Terry Zwigoff

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.

Quotes by Rob Kardashian

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

Quotes by P. Chidambaram

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...

Quotes by Nico Tortorella

Architecture Quotes

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

Quotes by Mo Ibrahim

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...

Quotes by Michael Moritz

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

Quotes by Matthew Stewart

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...

Quotes by Kevin Plank

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

Quotes by John Quelch

Business Quotes

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.

Quotes by John Quelch

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.

Quotes by John Perkins

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...

Quotes by Jeffrey Skoll

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;...

Quotes by Jason Kilar

I am a student of a business school in Delhi and went back for my final semester exams.

Quotes by Hina Khan

Day Quotes

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.

Quotes by Heidi Roizen

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.

Quotes by Gary Hamel

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,...

Quotes by Evan Bayh

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.

Quotes by Edward de Bono

Filmmaking in general is my second career. I thought that writing wasn't practical, so I went to business school and got an MBA, and I worked three years in grant management.

Quotes by Dee Rees

Go Quotes

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

Quotes by Christie Hefner

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the general attitude toward business school in these quotes?
It's mixed and often skeptical. One quote criticizes people who suspend common sense after getting drowned in business models and Harvard-style teachings, while another argues that real technological breakthroughs come from a laboratory, not a business school curriculum.
Is there a personal story about considering business school?
Yes, one quote describes attending art school in Chicago at Columbia College with a plan to move into sustainable development and green Architecture, which was the reasoning behind wanting to go to business school in the first place.
How is Hollywood connected to business school in this topic?
One quote notes that the studio executives filmmakers have to pitch to are largely business school grads, framing that as part of what's wrong with how decisions get made in the industry.
Do any of the quotes credit business school with real value?
Not directly. The quotes lean toward criticism, whether it's suspending common sense for business-model jargon or arguing that genuine innovation doesn't originate in a business school classroom.
Where does real innovation come from, according to this topic?
One quote is explicit that the spark for a real technological breakthrough isn't something a business degree teaches, it's the product of hands-on experimentation in a lab-type setting, positioning business school as downstream of invention rather than its source.

One line even traces an original plan to study green Architecture before a business path took over, a reminder that many roads lead there.