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" Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge. "
Eli Broad
Moving On
Success
Challenge
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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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City
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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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" I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center. "
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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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Space
" 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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Best
Working Together
" 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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Manufacturing
Know
" 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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Day
End
" 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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Education
Today
School
" What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience. "
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Experience
World
Find
" I could live anywhere in the world I want. But Los Angeles is the place to live. "
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Place
Los Angeles
Live
" 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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Love
Life
Good
" 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. "
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Three
School
Education
" Oprah Winfrey's global influence is unparalleled. Not only has her generosity and firm belief that education is the key to a better life benefited countless women and children around the world, but her example has also inspired millions of people to give back in ways big and small. "
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Life
Children
Education
" 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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Good
Business
Money
" Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts. "
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People
Lawyers
Business
" Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before. "
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Because
Been
Doing
" 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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Art
Wife
Important
" I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy. "
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Always
Business
Philanthropy
" The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps. "
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Until
Collecting
Started
" 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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Art
Arts
Discipline
" Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education. "
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Teach
Talent
America
" 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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You
Thought
Think
" It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained. "
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Teachers
States
" 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. "
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People
Make A Difference
Help
" People would rather have art or gold instead of paper money. "
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Gold
Art
Rather
" 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. "
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Respect
Me
Time
" 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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Me
Like
Want
" I don't like to spend time in endless meetings talking about stuff that isn't going to get anything done. I have meetings, but they're short, prompt and to the point. "
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Short
Talking
Time
" Philanthropy is activism. "
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Activism
Philanthropy
" The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels. "
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Problems
I See
Delegate