Nicolas Berggruen's Profile
Brief about Nicolas Berggruen: By info that we know Nicolas Berggruen was born at 1961-08-10. And also Nicolas Berggruen is American Businessman.
Some Nicolas Berggruen's quotes. Goto "Nicolas Berggruen's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Emotional, Place, StrongThe 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.
Tags: Good, Lives, MakesThink of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?
Tags: Apple, Google, YorkWhatever 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 last forever. That's real value.
Tags: Real, Short, TimeAt the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.
Tags: End, Real, YourselfI can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat.
Tags: Drive, Passenger, SeatI 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.
Tags: Friends, Time, YearI wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.
Tags: Artist, Great, WishIf you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.
Tags: Changed, Hate, YorkIf 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.
Tags: Away, Energy, TakesLuckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.
Tags: Else, Luckily, WholePossessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.
Tags: Living, Others, ShowThis is a bit like big-game hunting. You look for companies of a certain size that deserve to be public.
Tags: Bit, Deserve, PublicCalifornia 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.
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