What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.
David RubensteinThe world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.
David RubensteinI realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?
David RubensteinMy father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.
David Rubenstein