You Always Learn Lessons In Business.

To Me, Money Is A Means To Do Good. I Reached A Point In My Life Where I Had Enjoyed Tremendous Business Success That Afforded My Family Everything We Could Possibly Want. My Wife And I Then Decided That We Could Use Our Wealth To Make A Difference. So We Created The Broad Foundations To Do Four Things: To Improve Urban Public Education, To Support Innovative Scientific And Medical Research, To Foster Art Appreciation For Audiences Worldwide And To Support Civic Initiatives In Los Angeles.

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.

No One Ever Made A Million Bucks By Being Cautious Or Timid Or Reasonable.

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.

The First Dream I Had Was Just To Get A College Education. I Got Through College In Three Years, Taking Extra Classes In Summer School.