School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

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

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

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.

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