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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Eli Broad

Succeed

Teachers

Workplace

" 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. "

" Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before. "

" I'd rather be respected than loved. "

" Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings. "

" 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. "

" The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps. "

" School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs. "

" 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. "

" In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not. "

Eli Broad

America

You

" 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. "

" A real collector does not sell. "

" I've got a big ego, I admit it; I'm ego-driven. "

" 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 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. "

Eli Broad

Work

Debt

" I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi. "

" 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. "

" Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people. "

" Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You always learn lessons in business. "

" I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles. "

" Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education. "

" I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to educate a much broader public. "

" I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500. "

" 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. "

" I never stay anywhere - parties, museums, meetings - longer than three hours. "

" I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center. "

" You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school. "