Top 1200 Business School Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

When I came out of high school, I was a little kid. I didn't understand the business.

Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself.

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every business is like show business, including politics, which has become more like show business than show business is.

The business is about coming up with a business plan and using your relationships and networking and seeing your dreams come true. Everyone on this show has their own business. Fifteen minutes of fame is fleeting. It's about learning the business and creating a new business.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

I wasn't a good school pupil. I was interested in business.

I was a business major, then went to law school, and I practiced a few years.

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.

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

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

I had a fantastic teacher in high school. I had one of those guys you dream of having, who molds your life and inspires you to go in a particular direction, and he was quite brilliant. His name was Cecil Pickett, and a lot of the kids from my high-school drama class are in professional show business and have done quite well.

Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether you go to prep school or public school or ghetto school or rich suburban school. And actually, it spun off from a Kurt Vonnegut quote.

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

I am an entrepreneur, but not in the conventional sense. I have learnt business as time passed, but I do not have a B-school education.

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!

Business leaders regularly complain that young people don't leave school with the right skills. Encouraging young people to be entrepreneurs makes the connection between school and the world of work, teaching them about practical thinking, team-work, communication and financial literacy.

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

I saw school as a business and, once I had got what I needed out of it, I left.

From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within the school itself; while, on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning at school. That is the isolation of the school — its isolation from life.

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

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

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

There was a school in Chicago called the School of Design. This was started by [Laszló] Moholy-Nagy, and it was a wonderful school, but we [with Alix MacKenzie] didn't go to that school. We did have friends who went to that school and we would visit there often, and I'm sure it pushed me in my painting direction very strongly just by association.

In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is.

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

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

I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.

I liked business studies and economics at school and it followed on from there.

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is. My reward comes in the doing of it.

I was getting in trouble at school. I wasn't happy. The school was very much a school that created people for commerce and it wasn't an arty school.

From the time I was in elementary school, I wanted to work in the family business.

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

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

I don't have an MBA from Harvard Business School. I learnt everything on the job.

The business of America is business, but it's about high-integrity business. It's about a business where you keep your word, where you make square deals.

I don't mix business with anything. I don't do business dinners. I don't do business tennis. And I don't do business squash.

Drama school was the first place I learned that looks can affect your career. It was very horrible at the time. I had a lot of very bad experiences at drama school because of that, from the teachers and the students. In the end, I think it was good for me because it hardened me to the realities of the business early on.

The digital business is a fantastic business to be in. The only thing you have to do is build a cost structure for a declining business, which is different from the structure for a growing business.

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

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

I assumed a business like a film studio would behave like a business and still want to protect its own interests, still do the best it could to get as many people paying for as many of their movies as possible. I realized this is not actually a business about business: it's a business of egos and dominance.

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

I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.

I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt.

Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a business.

I don't know if one's more typecasting than the other, or what I am more like. But I know that the high school I went to was a private school. It was prep school. It was a boarding school. So we didn't have a shop class. We didn't have Saturday detention. We went to school on Saturday. We did have Sunday study, which you very rarely get, because then you have 13 straight days of school. Who wants that?

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

You always have to know what business you are in. Everybody thought we were in the basketball business. It's an NBA-team; we are not in the basketball business. We are in the business of creating experiences and memories.

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

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

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

Going through secondary school in Ireland, everyone's like, 'What are you gonna do when you finish school? Go to college? Study business? Study electronics?' I was like, 'Well I kinda love wrestling, so I don't see why I should want to study anything else except wrestling.' For me, it was a no brainer.

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

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

I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.

I started my business with my best friend from high school.

I majored in business/marketing because I was going to be a teacher and a high school basketball coach.

I went to school for singing, middle school at LaGuardia High School. Followed by Berkeley College of Music and afterwards I went to acting school at the Neighborhood Playhouse for Theater.

I actually met one of my business partners [Neal Dodson] at the Governor's School summer program, so we've known each other since we were 15 and 16 years old, and we both ended up at Carnegie Mellon together. He started working for a producer out of school after a few years, and then we started the company together.