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American - Businessman Born: June 6, 1933

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.

Yourself Me People Your

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.

Classroom How Students Phones

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.

Life Good Love Family

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

Problems See I See Biggest

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.

Work You People Help

Someone 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.

Success Moment Me Moving On

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.

Work Think Go Things

You can have great teachers, but if you don't have a good principal, you won't have a good school.

Good You School Great

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.

Best You Think Thought

Without a doubt, stem cell research will lead to the dramatic improvement in the human condition and will benefit millions of people.

People Improvement Research Doubt

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Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Beauty Art Emotion Thing

A real collector does not sell.

Real Sell Does Collector

I am old enough to remember when America's K-12 public schools were the best in the world. I am a proud graduate of them, and I credit much of my success to what I learned in Detroit Public Schools and at Michigan State University.

Success Best I Am World

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.

Good Family Business Children

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.

Good Me You Thinking

I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500.

Time You Think Difficult

In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not.

You America Like Accomplished

School boards are, for the most part,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.

People School Parents Stone

I believe in the democratization of the arts. What do I mean by that? I think museums, with some exceptions, have a responsibility to educate a much broader public.

Believe Responsibility Think Mean

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Business People Lawyers Remembered

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

Death Time Lawyers Bored

Los Angeles is one of the four cultural capitals of the world, but we don't attract as many cultural tourists as New York, London or Paris. I want to change that.

Change World New Want

I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.

Best You Together Working Together

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

History Great City Always

People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.

Depression People Parents Child

Philanthropy is activism.

Philanthropy Activism

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