Business Quote by Maurice Levy

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not…

— Albert J. Nock

Universities are not like supermarkets: their job is to serve the country, not just the customers who happen to walk through their doors.

— David Lammy

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

— Jim Harrison

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

— John Stuart Mill

“Unfortunately, the truth is that in universities the world over, the tremendous analytical power and insights of market economics are unappreciated. For whatever political…

— Henry Manne

“Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds for advancement.…

— David Brooks

Higher education is a business that doesn’t know it’s going out of business.

— Mark Cuban

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

— David Lodge

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations…

— Richard Hofstadter

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their…

— Alain de Botton

If the government were to invest that money in higher education and public services, these would be far better investments. But administrators and academics…

— Henry Giroux

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

— Hal Abelson