John Quelch Quotes

I'd like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programs, or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

I want that three quad program! That's what's going to set me apart in the U.S.

It's pretty challenging in a small country to develop a business school with a world-class reputation because of the problem of attracting a critical mass of top-class researchers.

Campuses of best universities of the world will be set up in Knowledge Park.

If you can promise a vital and vibrant research environment as well as great students to your faculty, you can recruit some top faculty. The top faculty on your roster will then help you to attract further top students in your program.

There is no place in world where you can do higher education better than in the UK.

If you can't create a world-class university, why not invite one in?

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty from around the world if we want to sustain our excellence.

The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.

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

Universities are good at long term thinking. Of the 85 institutions in the world that were in existence 500 years ago, 70 of them are universities.

In the long run, a second class education always costs more money than a first class education.

Maryland is one of the greatest schools that we have in this country.

The strength of the American higher education system is that it is a multifaceted, multi-layered system, and that is what makes us very strong.

We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.

I believe that the future is determined by the great public universities. They educate 80 percent of the students and make the American Dream available.

An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods and more, to build a community - and a culture.

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.

It's only a matter of time before the English clubs become a lot more competitive in Europe, if not dominant, because our league is, by far, the richest league in the world.

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