Eli BroadI think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500.372ThoughtTime
Eli BroadWho you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you. ✨ … ▶351LifeThought
Eli BroadIf you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.374Reading
Eli BroadI've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.363Thought
Eli BroadCharity 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… ▶342Humanity
Eli BroadThe inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels. ✨ Eli Broad (2012). The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thin… ▶343Thought
Eli BroadCollecting is more than just buying objects.354Time
Eli BroadMost 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. ✨ Broad … ▶355Love
Eli BroadEvery artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.344Humanity
Eli BroadYou can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.345Humor
Eli BroadPeople always say congratulations. When you're a successful bidder it means you're willing to spend more money than anyone else. I'm not sure if that's congratulations or condolen… ▶334Humanity
Eli BroadWhile I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping … ▶291Time
Eli BroadThe first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.368Humor
Eli BroadContemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.281PhilosophyThought
Eli BroadOne, 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.’325Death
Eli BroadManagers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which… ▶314Life
Eli BroadSomeone 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.314Time
Eli BroadI 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 securitizati… ▶293Thought
Eli BroadI never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.282Sadness
Eli BroadUnfortunately, 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 appropr… ▶261PhilosophyThought
Eli BroadI believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that want to own it for reasons other than maximizing … ▶261Hope
Eli BroadI have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.3510Sadness
Eli BroadCollectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.251Hope
Eli BroadIf people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.328Humanity
Eli BroadArtists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.251Life
Eli BroadA real collector does not sell.317Philosophy
Eli BroadAt a time when all the other builders were selling homes with basements but without carports, we would sell homes without basements and with carports. This allowed us to provide a… ▶306Time
Eli BroadI learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.329Thought
Eli BroadThe biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented America… ▶252Politics
Eli BroadFrankly, 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 th… ▶318Politics
