Saturday, August 23, 2008

Quotable qoutes for B-School grads

..............on nostalgia, MBA, professors and more!!

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. ~Warren Buffett

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. ~W.H. Auden

College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night? ~David Wood

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect! ~Owens Lee Pomeroy

I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. ~Agnes DeMille

The MBA trains the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences. ~Henry Mintzberg

It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days. ~Isabel Waxman

I do what I love. You don't need an MBA to be successful. You need a unique concept and guts. ~Deborah Karabin

People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around. ~Author Unknown

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