"I felt I was owned by possessions." — Nicolas Berggruen

"I felt I was owned by possessions."

— Nicolas Berggruen

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21 Quotes by Nicolas Berggruen

Nicolas Berggruen has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second…
Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not…
Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a…
Other people might have family - three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn't exist. I'm going to…
L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a…
In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of…
Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building.…
California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side,…
At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is…
Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.
Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth…
California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People…

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