Top 56 David Rockefeller Quotes
#1. Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
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#2. The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
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#3. Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.
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#4. Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
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#5. If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world.
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#6. Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.
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#8. It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.
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#9. For more than 40 years, I have advocated the creation of a 'round the clock' community. This would mean, at the least, housing, schools and shops of various kinds alongside the commercial buildings. That kind of community had appeared in lower Manhattan in nascent form before Sept. 11, 2001.
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#10. The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
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#11. The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.
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#12. I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
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#13. As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
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#14. This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.
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#15. Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government ...
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#16. You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.
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#17. They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
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#18. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
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#19. Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
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#20. Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.
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#21. Somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.
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#22. The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.
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#23. My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large sums to spend. So, she began buying prints and drawings. During my school days, I remember sitting in on many of the early meetings.
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#24. I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.
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#26. Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
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#27. Harvard has played an important role in my life. I was a student, Class of 1936, and I've been on the board of overseers. My experiences there shaped who I am.
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#28. Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.
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#29. The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.
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#30. MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
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#31. We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis ...
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#32. I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
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#33. I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
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#34. I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.
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#35. I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
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#36. Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.
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#37. I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
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#38. Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
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#39. Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.
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#40. I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.
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#41. My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution.
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#42. I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.
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#43. Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that's where they pretty much parted company. Father ... anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not very good.
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#44. When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.
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#45. When I see something I like, I buy it, but I do not look for it madly.
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#48. I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
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#49. I think that the best hope for peace and prosperity in the world is greater cooperation among nations, which in turn will be produced if both our governments and the people of our countries travel more and get to know each other better.
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#50. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
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#52. A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
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#53. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
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#54. By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.
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#55. Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.
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#56. Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere ... And what happens if we don't pass NAFTA? I truly don't think that 'criminal' would be too strong a word for rejecting NAFTA.
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