Mba Quotes

ran - at separate times - a boutique investment banking firm and a small mortgage company. He served as the Treasurer for the multinational vitamin manufacturer USANA Health Sciences years before becoming CFO for MonaVie. Devin squeezed in two brief stints in government, including two years working for Jake Garn on the U.S. Senate Banking Committee Staff and another year working for an independent state agency called USTAR, where he helped foster technology entrepreneurship during Governor Jon Huntsman's administration. Devin is proud to be a Ute, having graduated from the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business, which recognized him as a Distinguished Alum in 2006. He also earned an MBA at Cornell University where he ran the student newspaper, Cornell Business. ~ Devin D. Thorpe

Believe that everything will be okay. Everything will be okay; just believe. ~ Dr. Jacent Mpalyenkana, Ph.D. MBA

When we deny thoughts our attention they cease to create conditions. ~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, PhD, MBA

Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If I do everything that the people in those cases did, then my organization will grow and be successful, too.' ~ Clayton Christensen

Paradoxically, then, network effects businesses must start with especially small markets. Facebook started with just Harvard students - Mark Zuckerberg's first product was designed to get all his classmates signed up, not to attract all people of Earth. This is why successful network businesses rarely get started by MBA types: the initial markets are so small that they often don't even appear to be business opportunities at ~ Peter Thiel

What is central to business is the joy of creating. ~ Peter Robinson

No matter the outcome, having completed a series of MBA applications in a serious, thoughtful way is a real achievement. ~ Linda Abraham

MBA students are not the only ones overconfident about their abilities. The "above average" effect is pervasive. Ninety percent of all drivers think they are above average behind the wheel, ~ Richard H. Thaler

When I was young, I was an academically oriented guy like most academically oriented guys. I graduated in science, did an MBA. My dreams as a young boy were I wanted to be an industrialist, or I wanted to be a scientist. ~ Amish Tripathi

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

Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management. ~ Peter Drucker

Go to law school if you want to be a lawyer. If you want to party, go get an MBA. The Rat ~ Charles Cooper

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

Page holds Musk up as a model he wishes others would emulate - a figure that should be replicated during a time in which the businessmen and politicians have fixated on short-term, inconsequential goals. "I don't think we're doing a good job as a society deciding what things are really important to do," Page said. "I think like we're just not educating people in this kind of general way. You should have a pretty broad engineering and scientific background. You should have some leadership training and a bit of MBA training or knowledge of how to run things, organize stuff, and raise money. I don't think most people are doing that, and it's a big problem. Engineers are usually trained in a very fixed area. When you're able to think about all of these disciplines together, you kind of think differently and can dream of much crazier things and how they might work. I think that's really an important thing for the world. That's how we make progress. ~ Ashlee Vance

Reading self-improvement books is like creating a mental savings account from which we can withdraw viable tools for what we perceive as tough days. ~ Dr. Jacent Mpalyenkana, Ph.D. MBA

The thing that gets me is, when I switched to doing an MBA at night while working at Bexley, he was unimpressed. Like he'd had any kind of opinion. Like I wasn't even noticed or acknowledged enough to disappoint. But I have, Over and over, my entire life. My career is a joke to him."

I'm surprised by how angry I'm getting. I think of Anthony, his face permanently twisted into a sarcastic expression,

"He's lost something special in you, Why is he like this?"

"I don't know. If I knew, maybe I could change it. He's just been that way with me, and most people. ~ Sally Thorne

The truth is what it is to who holds it. ~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, PhD, MBA

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

What hasn't she done to me? She's the most beautiful woman I've ever met in my entire life. She has a passion about other people's happiness that is simply inspiring. She rose from her own ashes and became an even better person when most would have stayed in the dark," I tell her, looking straight into her eyes. "And when she dances, sings or plays an instrument ... she's a completely out of this world artist and I can't take my eyes ... and hands off her, ~ Danielle-Claude Ngontang Mba

Don't put blame on anything, put the blame on yourself for perceiving that "thing" as something to blame in the first place. ~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

The biggest secret that traders don't want the world to know is that anyone with a more or less sane disposition can do what they're doing. The trick is getting access to the trough, to the P&L, to the "book." The road toward it is tough, treacherous and crowded. On the way there, you will be misled into believing that in order to be a trader you must have a physics PhD, or know how to write code and build models, or have a top-school MBA, or, when all else fails, just be a young Caucasian male. But in the end, it doesn't matter who made it to the top. In the end, it all comes down to merely placing a bet. ~ Katya G. Cohen

The women's health initiative standards for HRT is nothing but an embarrassment to all physicians, and I'm not sure why they have not retracted all the statements that came out of that joke of a study. ~ Marie Hoag MBA

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. ~ Avinash Advani

This world's a tough place to live in and you have to have something to fall back on. ~ David Ragan

You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm is the maximization of return on invested capital. I always thought this was a kind of lunacy. ~ Peter Senge

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

Besides, that MBA is a Masters of Business Administration, not a Masters of Business Leadership. ~ Dave Anderson

We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence. ~ Craig Newmark

Do not wait for the green light. You are the green light. ~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, PhD, MBA

I have anecdotal evidence in my business that MBAs tend to blow up in financial markets, as they are trained to simplify matters a couple of steps beyond their requirement. (I beg the MBA reader not to take offense; I am myself the unhappy holder of the degree.) ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Cliché: "The MBA changed my life."

What it really means:
"A fantastic career, a great social life and a healthy bank balance...three of the things I had before I started the program. ~ Sameer Kamat

When you finally understand that it's all so temporary, you start focusing on what's truly permanent: the connection to God within you ~ Dr. Jacent Mpalyenkana, Ph.D. MBA

We know unequivocally that the traditional MBA curriculum for running large companies like IBM, GM and Boeing does not work in startups. In fact, it's toxic. ~ Steven Gary Blank

Hire extremely independent, intelligent, and passionate people, not necessarily "experts." Maybe three or four of my employees have MBAs, and those guys aren't necessarily at the top of the food chain. ~ Yvon Chouinard

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

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

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs. ~ Felix Rohatyn

I am, before, during and after all conditions. I am a constant that is never altered by the temporal.
I am! ~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, PhD, MBA

MBA students come out with: 'My staff is my most important asset.' Bullshit. Staff is usually your biggest cost. We all employ some lazy bastards who needs a kick up the backside, but no one can bring themselves to admit it. ~ Michael O'Leary

Estrogen deficient woman are nothing but the walking dead. ~ Marie Hoag MBA

The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles. ~ Warren Bennis

I'll be as loving as you will be, as stubborn as I know you are, as passionate as I'm thankful you are and as supportive and understanding as I've known you to be. You are my best friend and I love you ~ Danielle-Claude Ngontang Mba

And for the glorious honor of being bitched at constantly and the esteemed title of Claims Investigator, he'd given up five years of his life as he went to college, created a debt his great-grandkids would curse him over, and got the holy honor of MBA. More Bullshit Allowed. (Zeke) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money. ~ Aaron Patzer

I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world. ~ Lapo Elkann

I got my MBA at Burberry, but I will get my PhD at Apple. ~ Angela Ahrendts

But that's life. That's your education. A series of opportunities and missed opportunities. Exams and grades and blue books and blue balls and majors and minors and liberal arts and liberal minds. The scam of it is, no matter how much you paid or how far you traveled, everybody's receipt says pretty much the same damn thing. BA, MBA, JD, PhD, MA, BS.

BS. That's all it is, right? ~ Ryan Quinn

I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I just got the MBA and not the doctorate. I loved it at Bain, and I've been there ever since. ~ Stephen Pagliuca

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject. ~ Peter Drucker

If you leave your mind unattended, the world will do it for you, and you will have to deal with the related insanity. ~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

Everything is nothing to an individual until they recognize and define it to be something. ~ Dr. Jacent Mpalyenkana, Ph.D. MBA

Sometimes whatever you think is killing you, might actually be rescurrecting you. ~ Dr. Jacent Mpalyenkana, Ph.D. MBA

All hurt is a consequence of focusing on what's dead. ~ Dr. Jacent Mpalyenkana, Ph.D. MBA

You're the one with almost an MBA," Barry, the short balding one, said to Lash. "You should know what to do." "They don't cover what to do with a dead hooker," Lash countered. "That's a whole different program. Political science, I think." Despite ~ Christopher Moore

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations. ~ Warren Bennis

You don't need a business plan. You don't need to have an MBA. All you need is a great idea. Anything is possible and you can accomplish it. ~ Ron Conway

When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA. ~ Aaron Patzer

It is only when we change the whole world of our inner world, that the whole world of the external world changes. ~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

Seeing the way leadership works in the real world is a tad more enlightening than reading case studies as an MBA student at Harvard Business School. ~ Jeetendr Sehdev