Top 1200 Business School Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for. And in life, not necessarily following directions helps you get certain places - because you go to the right school you can learn the right things, and you go to the wrong school you can learn the wrong things, so it just all depends. But school doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

A problem with school is that you often become what you study. If you study, let say cooking, you become a chef. If you study law, you become an attorney, and a study of auto mechanics makes you mechanics. The mistake in becoming what you study is that, too many people forget to mind their own business. They spend their lives minding someone else's business and making that person rich

Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.

I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's done in the business fashion whether it's promoting , marketing, whatever I'm doing.

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

I do know that when I look around in show business, I see a lot of people who were in my drama class in high school.

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.

I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.

I'm an entrepreneur and I love business. That's what I've always done. I went to school for that. My father took me out and said, 'You're gonna be here like everybody else.'

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it’s called the film business for a reason, there’s money involved ... But on the flip side, now I do not let the business side of it rule either. It’s a balance.

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

I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.

My first business was a retro-gaming site where you'd go and play all these cool old-school games. It was a good idea but ahead of its time.

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

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.

I was a completely normal kid, the school nerd. In Year 8 and 9 I got picked on. I was a freak- no one understood me. I was the kid who wanted to be abducted by ET. Then all the losers left in Year 10. But I was quite good at school, and very artistic. In Year 11 it turned around. I became one of the coolest kids in school. I was in school musicals- the kid who could sing. It was bizzare. I loved school. It's an amazing little world. The rules inside the school are different from the outside world.

I really had a rough time in middle school. Middle school to me was the way most people explain high school. Then in high school I had a blast. I basically did everything that you would do in high school or in college, so it really wasn't a difficult thing to pull out.

Back in the old-school days when I learned back in the '60s, the psychology of our business back in those days was totally different than the psychology of the young kids today. They're rushed. They don't have their timing down. Us old-school guys, we'd go 30 minutes, 45 minutes, an hour.

I ran a hot-dog-and-soda stand at Little League, and I started a business planning parties in high school.

I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.

I always try and watch how business people think. I like to read a lot about business people. I'm not going to say I've got a great business mind, but I enjoy learning from the world of business.

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

We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.

In my junior year of high school, I went to a boarding school for the arts: a school called the Governor's School for The Arts and Humanities. It was basically a mini-Juilliard - an intense training conservatory for the arts.

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

'One Tree Hill' will always be very, very special to me. It was my first television show. And my first gig in the business. It was surreal. I booked the role when I was 13. I had just started high school, and literally, I think, a week into high school, I found out I got the role. It was unimaginable! I learned so much from that show.

When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.

In business, integrity is just as important as in any of the great public offices... but I believe one of the first and fundamental obligations of competent business leadership is above all to protect the reputation and integrity of the business - to that degree the integrity of the business is the integrity of the leader.

I believe one's sexuality is one's own business. I really don't go around discussing it. Call me 'old school' on that topic.

Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere.

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

The reason I grew so fast in the supermarket business, without help of the banks in those days, was through my vendors. I convinced my vendors, the companies I was doing business with, if I did more business, they would do more business.

So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

When I was at U.C.L.A., I worked my way through school as a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I came in contact with a lot of people in the agency business.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

The music business is a weird business. Sometimes licensing doesn't happen because some business component that you never knew about stops it.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

I went to Enloe High School and then East Carolina University and graduated with a business degree in marketing.

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

I was in the business of marketing, and I have two Bachelor's Degrees in Political Journalism, and I wrote for the school newspaper at the time.

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.

The worst thing about the music business is the business part of it. Business has nothing whatever to do with writing, playing and performing.

Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"

Yeah, I went to business school and I actually worked as an accountant for about eight months. It's not what I wanted, but it was definitely a move to appease the parents.

When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

I didn't go to drama school, so I didn't really have many true friends in the business; 'Game Of Thrones' has definitely brought me that.

My schedule won't allow me to go to regular school, but I did love public school, and I did experience my first year of middle school in a regular school.

School taught me how to do a 9-5 job rather than be a person who wants to start a business.

What I'd tell any kid in high school is, 'Take business classes.' I don't care what else you're gonna do; if you're gonna do art or anything, take business classes. You can say, 'Well, I don't want to get commercial,' but if you do anything to make any money, you're doing something commercial.

In the restaurant business, if you break even, you're lucky. It's a really hard business, it's a survival business.

I feel like design school might ruin people, particularly if you're a menswear designer, as there's not much focus on business.

I don't know nothing about the restaurant business, but I've been around a barber shop all my life. That's where I used to get my dates in high school.