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
thinking debt corporations
I 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 securitization the homeowner can't go to the owner of the loan and work things out.
thinking common individual
I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.
real thinking house
I don't think the market can keep going up. In the U.S., we see real estate not going up.. houses are selling at lower prices. You can't have anything going up 10 percent to 20 percent to 30 percent indefinitely.
thinking use periods
I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500.
moving thinking incentives
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.
art thinking challenges
Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.
anchor brightest corridor hopefully minds research
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.
lifelong public schools strengthen union
As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.
acquired love saw time
Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.
enriching experience
What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience.
ask create help maintain status work
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.
family found good happiest higher iq life love maybe people three
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.
good reason
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.
blessed business created empire family fortune good money net quite
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.