Henry Mintzberg Quotes

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

I want to get my Masters in business.

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.

The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

I was actually accepted into medical school in Italy. But then I wanted to come back and learn medicine in Germany. And while waiting, I decided to join a business school. I figured it would be useful for doctors to know some business as well!

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

There are courses you can take to learn the mechanics of the business, like the Radcliffe course, but I don't think they teach you how to edit.

I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.

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.

Economics as currently presented in textbooks and taught in the classroom does not have much to do with business management, and still less with entrepreneurship.

I went to a special public school that was much more focused on academics and learning. My two best teachers were in accounting and calculus, so I fell in love with that, which made me want to go into business.

I was a business management major.

I wanted to understand the business side of entertainment, and that's why I decided to complete my MBA while I was in Delhi.

I've decided to study the MBA, as it's crucial to have comprehensive knowledge of business administration and management in running science technology institutes as well as making science-related policies.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

The idea that you can take smart but inexperienced 25-year-olds who never managed anything and turn them into effective managers via two years of classroom training is ludicrous.

When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.

Business is what concerns us. If you care about something enough to do something about it, you're in business