Eli Broad Quotes
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Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.
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I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.
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Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.
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I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.
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I've got a big ego, I admit it; I'm ego-driven.
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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.
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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.
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Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.
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You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.
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Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.
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School boards are, for the most part,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.
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The unions no longer control the education agenda of the Democratic Party.
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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.
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School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.
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It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained.
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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.
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I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500.
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I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.
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The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.