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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.
David Rockefeller
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David Rockefeller
Age: 101 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 12
Died: 2017
Died: March 20
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I do not like to be unkind.
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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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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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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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Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.
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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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Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.
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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 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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Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.
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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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I realize how fortunate I have been mine has been a wonderful life.
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