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Oprah Winfrey's global influence is unparalleled. Not only has her generosity and firm belief that education is the key to a better life benefited countless women and children around the world, but her example has also inspired millions of people to give back in ways big and small.

I believe in two things: One, Andrew Carnegie said, 'He who dies with wealth dies in shame.' And someone once said, 'He who gives while he lives also knows where it goes.'

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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.

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

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

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Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.

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It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained.

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I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

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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.

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Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.

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

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There were periods when the art market got overheated, but there is no reason it should appreciate dramatically.

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

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Philanthropy is activism.

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The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.

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Collecting is more than just buying objects.

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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.

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The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work and even dissuade some talented Americans from entering the profession. This needs to change.

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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.

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

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

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The unions no longer control the education agenda of the Democratic Party.

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Oprah Winfrey's global influence is unparalleled. Not only has her generosity and firm belief that education is the key to a better life benefited countless women and children around the world, but her example has also inspired millions of people to give back in ways big and small.

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I'd rather be respected than loved.

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I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

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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.

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Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.

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What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience.

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I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

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A real collector does not sell.

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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.

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