Chanda Kochhar Quotes

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.

I took the LSAT the day 'Jersey Shore' premiered, and after that I was too busy to go to law school.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

I had a good experience in college, but I don't think interdisciplinary education is something that's stressed very much at all. It's generally considered to be something of a bad idea.

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

I think everyone needs to focus on the quality of the undergraduate experience.

Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.

When I was getting my education, I fell in love with the writings of Peter Drucker. He was my hero. I had a naive belief that when I became a manager, it was going to be like Peter Drucker's books. That is, I was going to be the effective executive. I was going to talk to people about their goals. I was going to help them actualize.

Well, when I was a teenager I was terribly bookish. I was very studious.

Our higher education admissions process is neither fair nor effective.

Getting into graduate school was pure luck.

There are some people that say I need to be more academic in my teaching, I need to be more disciple developing focus, probably true. But where my heart is, is with people who are just passing through difficult time. I want to put literature in a form that is accessible for people who don't particularly read books.

I've concluded that getting the categories right is an absolutely crucial step to building useful management theory, and unfortunately too few writers do this. You've got to engage in serious scholarship, and then figure out how to write it in a way that lots of people can understand.

Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.