Alan Alda
Alan Alda

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

Alex Ferguson
Alex Ferguson

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.

Alexa Vega
Alexa Vega

I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.

Alexei Mordashov
Alexei Mordashov

Well... I graduated from the business school of Northumberland University in Newcastle.

Andrew Tobias
Andrew Tobias

I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.

Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang

I spent five years running Manhattan GMAT helping young people get into business school.

Andy Dunn
Andy Dunn

Graduating business school, I had $150,000 of debt. An investment firm offered me a steady job, but it didn't feel right. It was 2007 in Silicon Valley, and I dreamed of starting an Internet company.

Anita Roddick
Anita Roddick

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

Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab

As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand what growth was about. Back then, you had to ask a customer to pay some money. That was the most important thing in getting a company off the ground.

Chris Gardner
Chris Gardner

Business school professors don't take selling seriously because they don't know how to sell. It's easy to talk about business theory and production time and just-in-time development. Selling is much more difficult.