David Rockefeller Quotes
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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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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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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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Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.
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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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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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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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The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.
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If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
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...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.
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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work
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I think I am basically a happy person.
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We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.
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Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.
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Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
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I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
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Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.
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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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One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. 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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Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.
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The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.
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Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
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I do not like to be unkind.
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It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.
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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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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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I don't recall that I have said and I don't think that I really feel that we need a world government. We need governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can't imagine that there would be any likelihood or even that it would be desirable to have a single government elected by the people of the world.
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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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Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.
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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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