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Top 30 Eli Broad Quotes (2025 Update)

Eli Broad Quote: “I’d rather be respected than loved.”

1. “I’d rather be respected than loved.”

Eli Broad Quote: “Art evokes emotion. It doesn’t have to be a thing of beauty.”

2. “Art evokes emotion. It doesn’t have to be a thing of beauty.”

Eli Broad Quote: “Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.”

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

Eli Broad Quote: “I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.”

4. “I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.”

Eli Broad Quote: “I 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.”

5. “I 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.”

Eli Broad Quote: “Who 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.”

6. “Who 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.”

Eli Broad Quote: “Collecting is more than just buying objects.”

7. “Collecting is more than just buying objects.”

Eli Broad Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

Eli Broad Quote: “Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn’t been done before.”

9. “Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn’t been done before.”

Eli Broad Quote: “While 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 and smelling the roses.”

10. “While 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 and smelling the roses.”

Eli Broad Quote: “I can imagine no more important contribution to our country’s future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.”

11. “I can imagine no more important contribution to our country’s future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.”

Eli Broad Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

Eli Broad Quote: “Charity 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 things that haven’t been done before.”

13. “Charity 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 things that haven’t been done before.”

Eli Broad Quote: “A real collector does not sell.”

14. “A real collector does not sell.”

Eli Broad Quote: “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.’”

15. “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 Quote: “If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that’s fine. I just don’t like it when it’s inaccurate.”

16. “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 Quote: “I’d be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.”

17. “I’d be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.”

Eli Broad Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

Eli Broad Quote: “You always learn lessons in business.”

19. “You always learn lessons in business.”

Eli Broad Quote: “Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can’t live without it.”

20. “Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can’t live without it.”

Eli Broad Quote: “There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas – more than money – are the real currency for success.”

21. “There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas – more than money – are the real currency for success.”

Eli Broad Quote: “Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.”

22. “Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.”

Eli Broad Quote: “People 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 condolences.”

23. “People 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 condolences.”

Eli Broad Quote: “Time is the most valuable thing you have – and I’m not just talking about the minutes for which you’re paid.”

24. “Time is the most valuable thing you have – and I’m not just talking about the minutes for which you’re paid.”

Eli Broad Quote: “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.”

25. “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 Quote: “At 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 more appealing product at a lower price. In other words, we felt we would be giving customers greater value.”

26. “At 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 more appealing product at a lower price. In other words, we felt we would be giving customers greater value.”

Eli Broad Quote: “If someone can’t give me a good reason why you can’t do something, I find a way to do it.”

27. “If someone can’t give me a good reason why you can’t do something, I find a way to do it.”

Eli Broad Quote: “I don’t want to be in the film business. I’m not even sure it’s a business.”

28. “I don’t want to be in the film business. I’m not even sure it’s a business.”

Eli Broad Quote: “No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable.”

29. “No one ever made a million bucks by being cautious or timid or reasonable.”

Eli Broad Quote: “Ask yourself two questions before you take on a risk: What do I have to lose? And what’s the worst that can happen?”

30. “Ask yourself two questions before you take on a risk: What do I have to lose? And what’s the worst that can happen?”

Eli Broad Quote: “The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.”

31. “The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.”

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