Nicolas Berggruen Quotes

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Nicolas Berggruen

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 10, 1961

If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

Nicolas Berggruen

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.

Nicolas Berggruen

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.

Nicolas Berggruen

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

Nicolas Berggruen

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.

Nicolas Berggruen

This is a bit like big-game hunting. You look for companies of a certain size that deserve to be public.

Nicolas Berggruen

Everything I do now is about growing the pot to have more to give away.

Nicolas Berggruen

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

Nicolas Berggruen