Eli Broad Quotes

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• 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…
• Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds…
• I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.
• 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…
• There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed…
• I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the…
• I don't think the market can keep going up. In the U.S., we see real estate not going up.. houses are selling at lower prices.…
• At a time when all the other builders were selling homes with basements but without carports, we would sell homes without basements and with carports.…
• I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.
• 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…
• Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right.…
• Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.
• Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.
• Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.
• You always learn lessons in business.
• I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.
• I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.
• No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable.
• If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.
• 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…

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