"I understand the human instinct to want to……" — Nicolas Berggruen
"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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21 Quotes by Nicolas Berggruen
Nicolas Berggruen has 21 quotes on this site.
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The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second…
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Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not…
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Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a…
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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…
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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…
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In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of…
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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.…
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California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side,…
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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…
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Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.
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Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth…
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California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People…
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