David Rockefeller Quotes - Page 3

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.

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.

I think I am basically a happy person.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

There have been people.. ever since I've had any kind of position in the world.. who have accused me of being ruler of the world. I have to say that I think for the large part, I would have to decide to describe them as crack pots. It makes no sense whatsoever, and isn't true, and won't be true, and to raise it as a serious issue seems to me to be irresponsible.

Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.

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.

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.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.