Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

—David Rockefeller

About David Rockefeller

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David Rockefeller (June 12, 1915 – March 20, 2017) was an American economist and investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He was the oldest living member of the Rockefeller family from 2004 until his death in 2017. Rockefeller was the fifth son and...

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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.

—David Rockefeller

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

—David Rockefeller

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

—Christopher Lasch

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

—Barack Obama

That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

—Barack Obama

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