Eli Broad Quotes
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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.
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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'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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Collecting is more than just buying objects.
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I've got a big ego, I admit it; I'm ego-driven.
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I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles.
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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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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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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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Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.
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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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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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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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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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The unions no longer control the education agenda of the Democratic Party.
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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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School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.
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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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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 don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.
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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.