Words matter. These are the best Eli Broad Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think over any period of time, especially if you don’t use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500.
I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that want to own it for reasons other than maximizing profits. I also believe newspapers should remain in local hands.
If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that’s fine. I just don’t like it when it’s inaccurate.
Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.
The unions no longer control the education agenda of the Democratic Party.
You don’t support politicians in their elections if whoever’s seeking money only has a goal to stay in office or get in office. You have to pick the people who are going to do the best job.
A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else’s. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.
I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles.
A real collector does not sell.
I’d be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.
My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn’t become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.
The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
In America, what you’ve accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not.
In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, ‘Why is that?’ They didn’t want to be questioned.
There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.
Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn’t been done before.
Art evokes emotion. It doesn’t have to be a thing of beauty.
It’s critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained.
Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.
I never stay anywhere – parties, museums, meetings – longer than three hours.
Time is the most valuable thing you have – and I’m not just talking about the minutes for which you’re paid.
I don’t think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.
Being a Midwesterner, I know that many of the middle-class manufacturing jobs that had been at the heart of our economy are either gone or going, and they’re not coming back.
My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We’ve created quite a net worth. My children, two boys, have more money than they will ever need, and they aren’t empire builders.
Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.
I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.
I’d rather be respected than loved.
Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.
I’ve become convinced that Los Angeles is going to become the next contemporary art capital – no other city has more contemporary gallery space than Los Angeles. We’ve come into our own, finally.
I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.
Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven’t been done before.
What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience.
Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.
How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.
I believe in two things: One, Andrew Carnegie said, ‘He who dies with wealth dies in shame.’ And someone once said, ‘He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.’
Someone once told me I’m a sore winner, and they’re right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I’m moving on and looking for the next challenge.
It’s hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.
I could live anywhere in the world I want. But Los Angeles is the place to live.
Oprah Winfrey’s global influence is unparalleled. Not only has her generosity and firm belief that education is the key to a better life benefited countless women and children around the world, but her example has also inspired millions of people to give back in ways big and small.
As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I’ve always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.
The American people frankly have been, over many, many years – to be blunt – fat, dumb and happy. If they want their children to compete with children in India, China or Korea, they better get them a far better education.
I can’t think of another enterprise other than being a homeowner that can’t have its debt restructured in bankruptcy. Corporations can but a homeowner can’t? Now with securitization the homeowner can’t go to the owner of the loan and work things out.
For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: ‘How can we provide value to our customers?’ At the end of the day, that is what matters.
The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.
The happiest people I’ve found are in science. These people have three times the IQ – maybe I’m exaggerating. They have a higher IQ than I do. They love what they’re doing, they have a good family life, they’re satisfied.
The biggest barrier we’ve seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.
Los Angeles is such a great meritocracy. Where can someone with my background – don’t have the right family background, the right religion, the right provenance or whatever you want to call it – I come here and I’m accepted. The city’s been good to me. And I want to give back.
Los Angeles is one of the four cultural capitals of the world, but we don’t attract as many cultural tourists as New York, London or Paris. I want to change that.
I’m strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.
People don’t know I’ve got a deep social conscience. I’m a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.
