Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. – David Rockefeller
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. – David Rockefeller
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making ones 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. – David Rockefeller
As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us. – David Rockefeller