41 Quotes by Nicolas Berggruen

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.

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.

Brunch is boring, but that's part of the charm of it.

Everything I do now is about growing the pot to have more to give away,

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.

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

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 mind staying in one place for a while - I like to spend a lot of time in Los Angeles. It's a place where nobody goes out, where people will leave you alone. People in Los Angeles love themselves and they love what they do and they leave you alone. If you're isolated, you have a real advantage. You can work.

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