Eli Broad Quotes
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I never stay anywhere - parties, museums, meetings - longer than three hours.
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There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't producing the results we want - it's that we're not giving them what they need to help students achieve at high levels. K-12 education in the United States is deeply antiquated.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not.
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You always learn lessons in business.
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I could live anywhere in the world I want. But Los Angeles is the place to live.
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If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.
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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.
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It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.
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Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.
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I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.
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I'd rather be respected than loved.
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Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.
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I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.
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Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will they send their stuff to Memphis? No.
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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 some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.
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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.