Quotes by Nicolas Berggruen - Page 1

I felt I was owned by possessions.
Nicolas Berggruen / Investor
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Possessions
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Brunch is boring, but that's part of the charm of it.
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Boring
Brunch
Charm
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I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'
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Enjoyment
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I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat.
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Passenger Seat
Passengers
Want
Drive
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Everything I do now is about growing the pot to have more to give away.
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Giving
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Pot
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Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.
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Like Me
World
Would Be
Luckily
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I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.
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Artist
Great Artist
Scientist
Wish
Great Writer
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This is a bit like big-game hunting. You look for companies of a certain size that deserve to be public.
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Deserve
Hunting
Size
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At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.
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Fleeting
Keys
Real
Everything Else
Test
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If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.
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New York
Hate
London
World
Erased
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I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.
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Years
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Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.
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Zero
Environment
Interesting
Possessing
Wealth
Appeal
Grand
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If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.
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Energy
Ifs
Perfectionist
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I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting.
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Instinct
Nest
Possess
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Whatever I own is temporary, since we're only here for a short period of time. It's what we do and produce, it's our actions that will last forever. That's real value.
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Produce
Real Value
Actions
Short Period
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Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?
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Microsoft
Produce
Seattle
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Starbucks
Apple
Facebook
Intel
Valley
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Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.
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Commodity
Helping
Political
Theory
Transparency
Two
Advantages
Exchanges
Institutional
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Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.
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Accepting
Chinese
Emotional
Race
Safe
Singapore
Strong
Idea
Created
Cultures
Incredibly
Place
Mostly
Races
Safe Place
Swamp
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I tend to end relationships, so she can find somebody better than me. Because I want to be fair to people. I cannot devote enough energy and time and devotion to her. I think that is fair, no?
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California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.
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California
Invention
People
Thinking
Convention
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California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I don't mean just physically, but the sunny side is a future. California's worth saving, to put it bluntly.
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California
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World
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L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.
Nicolas Berggruen / Investor
Asia
Busy
Calming
Calming Effect
East
East Coast
Europe
Far Away
Intense
Islands
Location
Time World Me
Time Busy World
Island
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Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.
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Kids
Charitable
Giving
People
Houses
No Question
Transferred
Trusts
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The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives.
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Born
Certain
Culture
Differences
Environment
Good Governance
Governance
Huge
Looks
Our Lives
Biggest
Difference
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Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond.
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Subsistence
Africa
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Systems
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In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.
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New York
Commerce
Nyu
Photography
Teens
Years
Age World Better
Age Better World
Escape
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I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.
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Brilliant
Thoughtful
Beautiful City People
Functions
Museum
Tight
Wonderful Place
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I am not that attached to material things. And the good thing is I can make choices. I have very few possessions. Luckily, as a man you don't need much... a few papers, a couple of books, and a few shirts, jackets, sweaters. It fits in a little thing, in a paper bag, so it's very easy.
Nicolas Berggruen / Investor
Choices
Jackets
Material Things
Paper
Shirts
Sweaters
Good Man I Am
Attached
Bag
Fits
Good Thing
Little Thing
Luckily
Paper Bag
Possessions
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I don't mind staying in one place for a while - I like to spend a lot of time in Los Angeles. It's a place where nobody goes out, where people will leave you alone. People in Los Angeles love themselves and they love what they do and they leave you alone. If you're isolated, you have a real advantage. You can work.
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Advantage
Isolated
Los Angeles
Staying
Alone Love Time
Alone Love Work
Angeles
Los
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Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal. Whatever I own is temporary, since we're only here for a short period of time. It's what we do and produce, it's our actions, that will last forever. That's real value.
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Zero
Interesting
Real
Thinking
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