28 Quotes by Nelson Rockefeller

I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.

The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.' ... The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, 'urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.'

A man should make all he can, and give all he can.

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.

You can’t leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and “how well you look”.

There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor’s most affluent ulcer case.

No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan’s Famous.