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For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

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Eli Broad
Age: 87 †
Born: 1933
Born: June 6
Died: 2021
Died: April 30
Art Collector
Business Person
Financier
The Bronx
New York City
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