David Rockefeller
If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world.Collection: Ignorance
The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.Collection: Impact
I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American policy. The Soviets had no conception of how a pluralistic democracy works and believed elected officials, up to and including the president of the United States, were only figureheads acting out the roles dictated to them by the real "powers that be" - in this case, my family.Collection: Brother
Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.Collection: World Government
The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.Collection: Determination
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.Collection: Mother
Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere... And what happens if we don't pass NAFTA? I truly don't think that 'criminal' would be too strong a word for rejecting NAFTA.Collection: Strong
...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.Collection: Government
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.Collection: Motivational
I don't recall that I have said and I don't think that I really feel that we need a world government. We need governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can't imagine that there would be any likelihood or even that it would be desirable to have a single government elected by the people of the world.Collection: Thinking
Populists believe in conspiracies, and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their minions, control the world's economy. Because of my name and prominence as the head of the Chase for many years, I have earned the distinction of the "conspirator in chief" from these people.Collection: Believe
Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.Collection: Work
Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.Collection: Important Relationships
There have been people.. ever since I've had any kind of position in the world.. who have accused me of being ruler of the world. I have to say that I think for the large part, I would have to decide to describe them as crack pots. It makes no sense whatsoever, and isn't true, and won't be true, and to raise it as a serious issue seems to me to be irresponsible.Collection: Crazy
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard workCollection: Monday
My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution.Collection: Congratulations
I think that the best hope for peace and prosperity in the world is greater cooperation among nations, which in turn will be produced if both our governments and the people of our countries travel more and get to know each other better.Collection: Country
One cannot expect to coast along and rise automatically to the top, no matter what friends you may have in the company. There may have been a time when, in large corporations, a person could rise simply because he had a stock interest or because he had friends in top management. That's not true today. 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.Collection: Business
Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.Collection: Ignorance
Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.Collection: Success
Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work.Collection: Monday