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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
I do not like to be unkind.
I think I am basically a happy person.
I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.
I am never angry, although sometimes distressed.
I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.
The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.
I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work
Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.
MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.
I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.
When I see something I like, I buy it, but I do not look for it madly.
Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.
My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution.
We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis.
I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.
I was born into wealth and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like food or air.
...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.
A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.
I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.
Mother's taste was eclectic and ranged from the ancient world to the contemporary from Europe to the U.S.
Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.
The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.
Harvard has played an important role in my life. I was a student, Class of 1936, and I've been on the board of overseers. My experiences there shaped who I am.
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.
By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.
I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.
