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David Rockefeller Inspirational Quotes (37)

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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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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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If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
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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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Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
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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 owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
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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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I realize how fortunate I have been mine has been a wonderful life.
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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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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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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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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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I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.
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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 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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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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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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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work
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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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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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Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
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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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