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Nicolas Berggruen
American
August 10, 1961
Businessman
I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'
Nicolas Berggruen
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Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.
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Everything I do now is about growing the pot to have more to give away.
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I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat.
Nicolas Berggruen
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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.
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