David Rockefeller Quotes

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

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• I do not like to be unkind.

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• I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

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• I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

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• I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.

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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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• I think I am basically a happy person.

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

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

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

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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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• Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility.

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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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• The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

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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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• When I see something I like, I buy it, but I do not look for it madly.

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David Rockefeller (40)

Birth:	12th June, 1915
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Banker, Businessman, Philanthropist, Statesman

About

David Rockefeller was born in New York City, New York. He is an American banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998. He graduated from Harvard University in 1936 with a B.S. in English history and literature. He also studied economics for a year at Harvard and then a year at the London School of Economics. In 1940 he received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His dissertation was entitled Unused Resources and Economic Waste.  Rockefeller initially served as a secretary to New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Then, he became assistant regional director of the U.S. Office of Defense, Health and Welfare Services.

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