Harvard Business Quotes

#1. The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community.

Alex Ferguson

#2. A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.

Georges F. Doriot

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

Greg Brenneman

#4. Sometimes i feel that i am unlucky due to couldn't enroll in the Harvard Business School but at least by this encouragement that i enrolled in MBA in Human resource management program whereas i grown as a leader and build the team in the field of HRM through motivation.

Avinash Advani

#5. You might just learn something when you're in a mood to learn something. The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. There's a rule they don't teach you at Harvard Business School. It is: If anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

Edwin Land

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

Christie Hefner

#8. I wrote my first piece about the disruption of the Harvard Business School in 1999. Because you could see this coming. I haven't yet done the one about the disruption of the Stanford Business School.

Clayton M Christensen

#9. As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, 'Don't write a book, write a page...Don't expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well.

Shawn Achor

#10. My favorite magazine is the 'Harvard Business Review.' If someone sat across from me in a restaurant and didn't know me, that might surprise them.

Sophia Amoruso

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

Tyra Banks

#12. I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, since I think I applied to 300 jobs and didn't get any of them, so I decided that I would stay in school and go to Harvard Business school, and that's my background.

Hamilton E. James

#13. Stewart, Jr. who was called Stewie Two, graduated from Steering before Garp was even of age to enter the school; Jenny treated Stewie Two twice for a sprained ankle and once for gonorrhea. He later went through Harvard Business School, a staph infection, and a divorce.

John Irving

#14. The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

Mo Ibrahim

#15. A recent survey of 2,000 male graduates of Harvard Business School
found that penis length & IQ were equally good predictors of annual
income.
from Eugene

Greg Egan

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

P. Chidambaram

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

P. Chidambaram

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

John Harvey-Jones

#19. Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
(Harvard Business School definition of leadership)

Sheryl Sandberg

#20. In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy ... in the end I'm excited to see that happen. So pray for Harvard Business School if you wouldn't mind.

Clayton Christensen

#21. Harvard Business School's Teresa Amabile have found that external rewards and punishments - both carrots and sticks - can work nicely for algorithmic tasks. But they can be devastating for heuristic ones.

Daniel H. Pink

#22. Everyone Who Makes It Has a Mentor" was the title of the classic 1978 Harvard Business Review

Ellen A. Ensher

#23. Harvard Business School professor Howard Stevenson famously defined "entrepreneurship" as "the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.

Sophia Amoruso

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#25. Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

Clint Eastwood

#26. I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.'

Jason Kilar

#27. Disengaged employees are an unfortunate reality in the workplace, and poor leadership is often to blame.

W.Chan Kim

#28. I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.

Billy Eckstine

#29. You cannot pursue all your goals simultaneously or satisfy all your desires at once. And it's an emotional drain to think you can. Instead, you must focus on long-term fulfillment rather than short-term success and, at various points in your life, think carefully about your priorities.

Eric C. Sinoway

#30. Organizations can't change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior - and changing behavior is hard.

Keith Ferrazzi

#31. I moved back to Boston and joined some of my Harvard classmates at Bain & Co. I quickly realized I enjoyed business.

Kenneth Chenault

#32. Marketing leaders instead must ask, "What values and goals guide our brand strategy, what capabilities drive marketing excellence, and what structures and ways of working will support them?" Structure must follow strategy - not the other way around.

Marc De Swaan Arons

#33. They studied the phenomenon at Harvard." "They studied soul-stealing at Harvard?" "What else do you think they do in business school? In any case, it's called the Ikea effect." "As in furniture?

Eliza Crewe

#34. Gates and Allen's use of Harvard's lab space would return to haunt them over the years, as their rivals suggested time and again that Microsoft played a rigged business game,

Linsey McGoey