Quotes from Eli Broad

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.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

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

You don't support politicians in their elections if whoever's seeking money only has a goal to stay in office or get in office. You have to pick the people who are going to do the best job.

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.

Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I'd rather be respected than loved.

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'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.

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.

Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.

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.

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

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

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

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.

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

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.