80 Quotes by David Rockefeller

I do not like to be unkind.

If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world.

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.

Mother also loved Asian art, but she preferred the ceramics and sculpture of earlier Chinese and Korean dynasties, as well as Buddhist art.

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

Little by little, though, people recognized that it was very important to give contemporary artists a permanent place where their work would be kept.

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress

In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country.