Nicolas Berggruen Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.”

“I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'”

“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.”

“I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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