David Rockefeller Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.”

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

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

“The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.”

“The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.”

“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.”

“For more than 40 years, I have advocated the creation of a 'round the clock' community. This would mean, at the least, housing, schools and shops of various kinds alongside the commercial buildings. That kind of community had appeared in lower Manhattan in nascent form before Sept. 11, 2001.”

“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.”

“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.”

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