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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 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.' "

Eli Broad

Shame

Said

I Believe

" If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status quo. I want to help people, to work with institutions or create ones when they don't exist. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People think it's strange how briskly I move through museums. Sure, I could stand in front of each piece and stare at it for a good long time. But that's not me. "

Eli Broad

Think

Stand

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained. "

" If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate. "

Eli Broad

Want

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

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

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

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

" Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. "

" 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. "

" To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it. "

" I'd rather be respected than loved. "

" I'm naturally curious, and I read four newspapers a day. "

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

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

" 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. "