business school

“And history is almost never taught in business schools. It's all the live case studies. Or the case studies, you know, where the ending is known, and therefore implicitly, structurally looks predetermined.”

“If you go to business school, rule number one is that you have to listen to the customer and you have to give them what they want. But that's the basic, you know, thing that a business person will do. That's kind of the opposite of what an artist normally does…”

“Business school, as an example, has taught you that redundancy is waste, and waste can be converted into profit, and profit is converted into compensation. And I think that is what people have really drank the Kool-Aid on. And so, you know, when they ran out o…”

“Business schools do not teach the fundamental problems of business. I mean, that's pretty bad, right? What they teach are finance. What they teach is marketing to teach us HR. And as the great, greatest management thinker of all time, Peter Drucker said, there…”

“There is nothing that's taught in business school classrooms that you are not capable of learning and understanding and applying on your own.”

“When you calculate the whole thing, there are, if I'm remembering correctly, Nine schools that have just passed the 400,000 dollar mark in terms of total cost of a program.”

“Yes, definitely the latter, because very often strategy is, as it is taught by people who've never run a company, never implemented strategy.”

“I also think going straight from college to business school, which I advise the students now, is you're really on three metrics. You need to make sure you're ready. Socially, you're going to be with students who are much older than you are on average. Academic…”