Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Conway

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.

Lee Iacocca

MBAs know everything but understand nothing.

Mark Cuban

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.

Michael O'Leary

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.

Peter Drucker

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.

Jeffrey Kluger

As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple doesn't make blenders. There's a reason Haagen-Dazs doesn't sell meat. And there's a reason drug companies should focus on saving and improving lives - not jeopardizing them.

Guy Kawasaki

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.

Jack Ma

All MBA have said are correct, but they can't execute it.

Aaron Patzer

When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.

Bill Cowher

Whatever happens, and you kind of deal with the circumstances that you are dealt with. I think, at this point, that is the mindset that we have to have and we will deal with whatever decisions or other choices we have at that time. I am not going to waste any time thinking about that or talking about that.

Lana Stanley

What is encouraging to us is a lot of people seem to recognize that if they don't support the 'mom and pop stores' they will go away and then their only choices will be the 'big boxes' and they know that they won't be happy with those as their only choices.

Tom Wood

I think we showed a little character. We kind of hung in there and that was nice to see. We missed some shots and made some funny choices with what we wanted to do with the basketball, but we managed to win the game.

Richard Bach

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

Rose McGowan

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

Truman Capote

I live in Brooklyn. By choice,

Rob Bell

This breath, and this moment, and this life is a gift and we are all in this together. We all have countless choices every day to close down or stand up straight and open up, and take a big breath and say YES to the gift.

Richard Rohr

Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.

Tori Amos

Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.

Ron Conway

I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don't necessarily like or use.

Ron Chernow

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

Tyler Hoechlin

I was trying to be an entrepreneur at seven years old.

Robert Reed

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

Vivek Wadhwa

The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.

Van Jones

I'm not calling for redistributing wealth; I'm calling for reinvigorating our stuck energy sector, so some new entrepreneurs can create some new wealth.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A great part of life consists of contemplating what we cannot cure.

Vinod Khosla

Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.

Vinton Cerf

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.