Eli Broad Quotes
112 Eli Broad Quotes
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Nothing sets me off more than being told I can’t do something.
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In love and in business, if you know what you want, you have to go for it.
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Work doesn’t have to be your life, but your life is your work.
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I am unreasonable.
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I believe that being unreasonable has been the key to my success.
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Being artfully unreasonable won’t necessarily make you a good team player, but it can make you a dramatically effective leader.
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The lessons I’ve taken to heart from nearly 60 years in business and philanthropy are ones I still use every day: ask lots of questions, pursue the untried, revise expectations upward, take risks, be restless, and most important, seek out the best in your work – the best deal, the best investment, the best people, the best causes, the best art – and the best in yourself.
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Children instinctively ask, ‘Why not?’… The questions you’ve willing to ask when others think they have all the answers are doors to discovery.
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Conventional wisdom strangles innovation.
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Even recessions can yield opportunity.
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Innovation is a permanent revolution.
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I’ve always been a salesman.
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Younger employees simply have fewer preconceived ideas of what they can and can’t do.
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Nothing wins people over like success.
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Everyone can be a philanthropist – not just the rich.
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To me, money is a means to do good.
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Part of the job of a leader is to get people to do more than they thought they could do.
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I try to set an example: I never ask people to do anything I wasn’t willing to do.
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We did a lot of things differently…
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You don’t want a bunch of robots running around.
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I’ve always asked questions…
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Do your homework no matter how much time it takes.
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It’s better to be respected than loved.
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Some of them have also called me crazy or nut. But they’ve all told me at some point that I was being unreasonable because my goals were unrealistic, my deadlines couldn’t be met, my ideas were far-fetched, or my approach trampled on the conventional wisdom. But I believe that being unreasonable has been the key to my success.
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Applying unreasonable thinking can help you achieve goals others may tell you are out of reach, just as it has for me.
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Over the past six decades I have had four careers: accounting, homebuilding, retirement savings, and philanthropy. I became the first person to build two Fortune 500 companies from the ground up in two different industries. The $6 billion I earned in business is now being used to help reform public education in America, assemble two world-class art collections and make them widely accessible, and provide critical start-up funding for cutting-edge biomedical research.
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All of my careers have demanded I meet people’s essential needs – helping them realize their dreams of homeownership and a secure retirement, educating their children, experiencing great art, and living a healthier life.
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Through my careers there has been one constant: a paperweight on my desk, a gift my wife, Edye, gave me some time after we were married in 1954… it’s inscription, a quote from George Bernard Shaw: ‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
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I passed the CPA exam at age 20 on the first try – a test that took my boss and other higher-ups several tries to ace. As the youngest CPA in Michigan’s history, I started demanding a raise. My boss didn’t like that – or my refusal to drop the subject – and I was fired.
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I tried to get a job working at a homebuilder but was turned away for lack of experience. That’s when I asked myself, ‘Why not start my own homebuilding company?’
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A keen eye for numbers would be my competitive advantage.
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Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.
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I found people who started out calling me crazy were suddenly happy to be my partners.
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Victory, as the old saying goes, has many fathers. People will flock to support you when you do well, but in the crucial early moments, and whenever you try to create something out of nothing, you will be on a solitary path blocked by obstacles and doubt.
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I became ‘Eli Broad, rhymes with road.’… I liked my new name.
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My first business… began with ‘Why not?’
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There was no really good reason why not, why it couldn’t be me, as long as I had the idea and the money – and the follow-through.
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Too often, age and experience become an excuse for accepting the status quo without question. Instead of asking ‘Why not?’ you become overwhelmed with all the reasons something can’t be done.
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When ‘Why not?’ disappears from our vocabulary, we often need something to jar us – inspiration from teachers or friends, new places, new challenges.
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One of the things you’ll discover when you ask ‘Why not?’ is that life is richer when you live it among the dreamers.
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