41 Quotes by Nicolas Berggruen

Think of everything in Seattle - Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks. Then you go down to Silicon Valley - Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter. What does New York produce?

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

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

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

This is a bit like big-game hunting. You look for companies of a certain size that deserve to be public.

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.

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.