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MBAs know everything but understand nothing. -- Lee Iacocca
All MBA have said are correct, but they can't execute it. -- Jack Ma
Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs. -- Felix Rohatyn
I got my MBA at Burberry, but I will get my PhD at Apple. -- Angela Ahrendts
You don't see a lot of MBAs as CEOs. The MBAs tend to get hired by the CEOs. -- Michael Ellsberg
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
More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject. -- Peter Drucker
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case. -- Guy Kawasaki
I'm not sure I was a typical head of a company. Most people that run big companies come out of sales and they come out of marketing and they're quite serious and they have MBA's from very good schools and things like that. I'm an accidental CEO, thank the Disney Company. -- Michael Eisner
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. Dolan
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
The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes of people who don't have a high school diploma, don't even speak English, and offer them a home at zero percent down, that doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense. -- Ramin Bahrani
I was a beast in college. I worked hard and I played hard. I was relentless learning about business. I actually snuck into MBA classes my freshman and sophomore years. I wanted to challenge myself to see how I compared to the smartest kids at Indiana University so I was 18 and pretended I was an MBA student. -- Mark Cuban
Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best songwriters learned to write good songs by writing a lot of not so good ones. Education matters in songwriting, just as it matters for physicists, chemists, doctors, lawyers and MBAs. Education lays the foundataion on which to build experience. -- Michael Kosser
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When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA. -- Aaron Patzer
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
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
If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I'm investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur. -- Mark Cuban
Just looking at Onex: We hire almost entirely at the most bottom level and bring them through a nine-year training program. We're probably 70/30 today not requiring an MBA. -- Gerry Schwartz
MBA programs are underwritten by large companies and they succeed at producing future employees of large companies. In that regard, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing. -- Lewis Schiff
I've been among their critics [MBA programs]. Much of what I've seen in business schools is quite non-rigorous. Anecdotal histories are stretched to illustrate favored slogans. Evidence of their effectiveness is similarly anecdotal. -- Charles R. Morris

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