Think you need an MBA from a top school to gain business smarts? Getting an MBA is an expensive choice – why fall into debts to get a degree to get a job to refund your heavy loan? Taking accountability for your education starts with understanding that even elite schools like Harvard and HEC offer outdated, assembly-line programs that teach you more about PowerPoint presentations and unnecessary financial models than about what it takes to run a real business.
They may teach you how to work for money, but not how to make money work for you. They may teach you the basics of business but not how to make a real difference. What they mostly teach you is to crave for a stamp on your forehead coming from their expensive institutions and saying “You’re capable. You’re worth it. You’re good enough.”
I’m not saying don’t get a degree. All I’m saying is, why would you need such an expensive stamp on your forehead to get started? If you are not self-confident without a degree today, you won’t be as a business owner tomorrow for you will never know everything about everything – and you don’t need to. See, we all have these primary fears that we are not good enough. But we can all change those limiting beliefs for empowering ones. It starts with understanding that we don’t need external validation. We need internal validation. So let’s make this clear: you are already good enough today; all you need is to learn how to become better tomorrow.
The good news is, they are tones of people out there who did succeed in what you aim to achieve in life and wrote about how they made it to success. Why not learn directly from them instead? Why learn from teachers who never did achieve your goals themselves? Why waste your time and money? You can get better results by learning from the best reading every day. Here’s a selection of 50 key quotes from the 50 best business books. Enjoy Winners!