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David Rockefeller

"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."

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"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."

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"The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified."

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"The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors."

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"The most successful people in the world today are entrepreneurs."

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"That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business."

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"We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn."

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"Redundancy is my favourite business strategy."

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"You have to learn when it's best to delegate those hard physical jobs to others while you tackle the heavy thinking."

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"There are two kinds of warriors: those on the battlefield, and those in the boardroom; both are out to win. But the age of King Alexander has gone, and the age of Bill Gates has come."

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"Entrepreneurs don t play safe, they play good."

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"They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought."
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"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."
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"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."
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