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.

I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.

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.