Top 10 Quotes by Josh Kaufman

When you're feeling lost, take heart. It's just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions.

When you're feeling lost, take heart. It's just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions.

Josh Kaufman

Heart, Decision, Feelings

Josh Kaufman (2010). “The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business”, p.233, Penguin

Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.

Josh Kaufman

School, Successful, People

Josh Kaufman (2010). “The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business”, p.46, Penguin

You can't make positive discoveries that make your life better if you never try anything new.

Josh Kaufman

Discovery, Trying, Ifs

Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority of that is useless.

Josh Kaufman

School, Majority, Useless

If you want to succeed in business in any capacity - employee, manager, or owner - you must have a solid, comprehensive understanding of what business principles actually are and how they actually work.

Josh Kaufman

Understanding, Principles, Want

Business is essentially applied rationality: a systematic process of thinking that produces a real-world result. Instead of mortgaging your life to go to business school, it's possible to dramatically increase your knowledge of business on your own time and with little cost - without setting foot inside a classroom.

Josh Kaufman

Real, School, Thinking

The quickest and easiest way to screw up your life is to take on too much debt.

Josh Kaufman

Too Much, Way, Screw Ups

Josh Kaufman (2010). “The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business”, p.55, Penguin

A good salesman, as the old (and politically incorrect) saying goes, can sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo. It's a cliché, but there's some truth to it: Inuit who live above the Arctic Circle use insulated refrigerators to keep their food from freezing in subzero temperatures

Josh Kaufman

Circles, Inuit, Use

Josh Kaufman (2010). “The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business”, p.117, Penguin

Every successful business creates or provides something of value that other people want or need at a price they're willing to pay, in a way that satisfies the purchaser's needs and expectations and provides the business sufficient revenue to make it worthwhile for the owners to continue operation.

Josh Kaufman

Motivational, Business, Successful

"The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business". Book by Josh Kaufman, August 28, 2012.