quotes about Mba
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When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.
-- Aaron PatzerSource : "Is Now the Time to Hire MBAs?" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. May 18, 2012.
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I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.
-- Amish Tripathi -
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 -
An MBA doesn’t impress me. A GSD does. GSD = Gets Stuff Done.
-- Christine Comaford-Lynch -
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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 -
Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.
-- Felix RohatynSource : "They had parties, we got the hangover" by Ruth Sunderland, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.
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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 -
All MBA have said are correct, but they can't execute it.
-- Jack Ma -
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From the comfort of distance, [Non resident Indians and Kashmiris] financially and emotionally support ideologies whose consequence they don’t have to face. They are not just a nuisance. As a collective they are dangerous. When men capable of murder receive the affection of engineers and MBAs, it makes them potentially far more lethal.
-- Manu Joseph -
More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.
-- Peter Drucker -
Sometimes during the two-year curriculum, every MBA student ought to hear it clearly stated that numbers, techniques, and analysis are all side matters. What is central to business is the joy of creating.
-- Peter Robinson -
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We [in the MBA] get to create a situation where we're really choosing the students to join our environment based upon what we think they can teach the rest of us. We're always trying to attract people who are going to bring excitement and intellectual curiosity into our classrooms in our environment.
-- Robert J. DolanSource : Source: bigthink.com
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Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.
-- Virginia PostrelSource : Virginia Postrel (2009). “The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness”, p.4, Harper Collins
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A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.
-- Warren Farrell -
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 -
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If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think the MBA programs and their connection to large companies remains intact but it's not the path to a "Business Brilliant" life. It's a path to a middle-class existence marked by large stretches of security and comfort with occasional eruptions that you're probably ill-prepared to handle. Do I sound too cynical?
-- Lewis Schiff -
You don't see a lot of MBAs as CEOs. The MBAs tend to get hired by the CEOs.
-- Michael Ellsberg -
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 -
An MBA doesn’t impress me. A GSD does. GSD = Gets Stuff Done.
-- Christine Comaford-Lynch -
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When it comes to success in business, an MBA degree is optional. But a GSD, which is only earned by Getting Stuff Done, is required.
-- Christine Comaford-Lynch -
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