Jerry Yang Quotes

I'm very proud to tell you guys I have been accepted into Stanford University, one of the main institutions of learning and research in the world.

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

I was one of those dorky kids who'd wanted to go to Harvard since the fifth grade.

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

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

I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.

I had a great time at Oxford, got a wonderful, wonderful education there.

Michigan is a proud university.

I actually didn't know anything about Stanford. It was the only school I really did a lot of research on.

Stony Brook is a phenomenal university and I am proud to be affiliated with it, so it is gratifying to be able to support this wonderful institution in whatever way I can.

You know I went to the Hunt Schools, a boarding school in Princeton, and I've heard so many Rhodes scholars have gone to the Ivys.

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

What other school in the country is top five academically and top five in football? There isn't one - except Stanford.

I'm really fortunate to be at Stanford. I go home every 10 weeks, but Stanford apart from being just a wonderful university is one of the places that are part of a great conversation.

I didn't go to Ivy League schools. I dropped out of college to go into movies.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

Oxford has a slightly mythical rep, particularly for people who haven't been there.

This great Western institution, the university, dominates the world today more than any other institution: more than the church, more than the government, more than all other institutions. All the leaders of government are graduates of universities, or at least of secondary schools or colleges whose administrators and teachers are themselves graduates of universities….professionals—doctors, engineers, lawyers, etc. have all passed through the mill of the secondary school, the college and the university. And the men of the media are university trained

Had Barack Obama been obliged to take his degree at the University of Akron, say, it is doubtful that his progress would have been remotely as stellar.

All my mind was centered on my studies, which, especially at the beginning, were difficult. In fact, I was insufficiently prepared to follow the physical science course at the Sorbonne, for, despite all my efforts, I had not succeeded in acquiring in Poland a preparation as complete as that of the French students following the same course.

I have an economics degree from Harvard.