Quotes By David Rockefeller

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

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.

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.

I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

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

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

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.