Vivek Wadhwa Quotes

When I go back into education, I'm going to do business studies.

I think many people go to business school and learn ways to play it safe, ensuring that they avoid some of the pain that entrepreneurs endure while taking less calculated risks.

I want to get my Masters in business.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

I spend a lot of time on college campuses, a lot of time mentoring young women in all sectors of business, because I don't want them to spend as much time to get their voice as I did.

The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.

I went to business school in my thirties.

Most MBA graduates are hungry for intellectual glamour.

My father and I talked every day. He coached me on how to cold-call companies I wanted in our portfolio, how to network at public events, to cultivate senior journalists at important outlets, and how to run a profitable P&L. But, more or less, he allowed me to make my own mistakes.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

I had a wonderful and very successful career in New York and had the privilege of working with some of the best editors and publishers in the business.

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.

I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it.

What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least for full-time younger people M.B.A. programs - and assume you are ready to manage.

Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.

I am personally interested in more than just business schools. However, life has been good to me, and it's been good to me through a business career. I think the chance to help strengthen the foundation of young people going into business, as I did, just appeals to me.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

My best experience was my business training.

One of my goals is to educate myself more as a woman in this business.

I've always wanted to be a businessman. No other ambitions - I just wanted to be in business, even when I was a child in Fujian province, south China.

My grandmother started as a ticket-taker and basically became the CFO of my dad's company. It was a very important first impression for me - I've always looked on the business with more eyes than just as a wrestler.