Eli Broad
Eli Broad
Eli L. Broadis an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the only person to build two Fortune 500 companies in different industries. As of October 2015, Forbes ranked Broad the 65th wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $7.4 billion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth6 June 1933
CountryUnited States of America
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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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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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This will hopefully be the anchor of a new biomedical corridor in the region, where the nation's most cutting-edge research is conducted by some of the brightest minds in science.
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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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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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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.
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Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.
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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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David Baltimore will go down in history as not only a great scientist but also as one of the great presidents of Caltech,
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It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained.
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I've got a big ego, I admit it; I'm ego-driven.
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It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.
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It is our hope that the Broad Institute will really be the anchor of a new biomedical corridor in Southern California. Despite the fact that we have great universities, great medical schools, we have not built integrated research space that will encourage expansion of the biotech industry.