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Top 15 Nicolas Berggruen Quotes (2025 Update)

Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.”

1. “California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.”

— Nicolas Berggruen

Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU – nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.”

3. “In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU – nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.”

— Nicolas Berggruen

Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “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.”

4. “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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Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “I 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.”

5. “I 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.”

— Nicolas Berggruen

Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “Other people might have family – three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn’t exist. I’m going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.”

6. “Other people might have family – three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn’t exist. I’m going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.”

— Nicolas Berggruen

Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “Brunch is boring, but that’s part of the charm of it.”

7. “Brunch is boring, but that’s part of the charm of it.”

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Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “I can drive. Let’s just say you don’t want to be in the passenger seat.”

8. “I can drive. Let’s just say you don’t want to be in the passenger seat.”

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Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “I felt I was owned by possessions.”

9. “I felt I was owned by possessions.”

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Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “At the end, the key thing is you’ve got to live with yourself. That’s the real test. Everything else is fleeting.”

10. “At the end, the key thing is you’ve got to live with yourself. That’s the real test. Everything else is fleeting.”

— Nicolas Berggruen

Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “I don’t get that much enjoyment out of saying ‘I own it.’”

11. “I don’t get that much enjoyment out of saying ‘I own it.’”

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Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.”

12. “Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.”

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Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.”

13. “Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.”

— Nicolas Berggruen

Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I’m not.”

14. “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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Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.”

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

— Nicolas Berggruen

Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It’s institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.”

17. “Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It’s institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.”

— Nicolas Berggruen

Nicolas Berggruen Quote: “Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond.”

18. “Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond.”

— Nicolas Berggruen

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