Ken Jeong Quotes

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

I have a strong attachment to Harvard.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

It is a privileged school with beautiful buildings in a beautiful setting. But the only justification for privilege is that it should help people develop themselves to the full. We are elitist, but not exclusive. And I'm not in ashamed in the least of being elitist. All that means is aiming at the highest standards you can achieve.

Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.

I went to Yale for undergrad.

What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece.

I didn't want to go to any school but Duke: the best of the best.

The road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees.

Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon.

I've said all along it's a humbling experience being at UCLA. Extremely proud, extremely blessed to be at an institution with all this tradition.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional

Everyone praises Harvard 'for the students.' But what makes Harvard's students so great is that they are, in many ways, a cross-section of the larger world. They are normal people who happen to be excellent, and this sets them apart. People who go to Yale go because they want to attend Yale. People who go to Harvard go because they can.

Harvard was very important to me and has been very important to so many people for so many years.

I wanted to go to Harvard because it felt like it would be the Hogwarts Academy of law schools.

Harvard has plenty of people that are way more important than football players.

I went to Stanford.

I studied at Carnegie Mellon. I went there with a bunch of really, really talented kids.

Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.

I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU