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29 quotes by Nicolas Berggruen

Nicolas Berggruen (born 10 August 1961) is a philanthropist and investor. A dual American and German citizen, he is the founder and president of Berggruen Holdings, a private investment company and the Berggruen Institute on Governance, a think tank that works on addressing governance issues. Through the Berggruen Institute he is also a co-founder with the Huffington Post of The WorldPost, a media publication dedicated to global issues. His...
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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... →

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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... →

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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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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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I felt I was owned by possessions.

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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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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;... →

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I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

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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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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... →

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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... →

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