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

~Nicolas Berggruen

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: August 10th, 1961

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