Olav Thon Quotes

Norway, Businessman
June 29, 1923

Olav Thon is a Norwegian real estate developer and listed in the Forbes list of billionaires as the 198th richest person in the world with a net worth of $6 billion as of March 2013. He is Norway's richest person and his Olav Thon Group is Norway's largest private real estate company, with 450 properties, including 60 hotels.

Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.

Olav Thon
- Country
- War
- Free
From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

Olav Thon
- Life
- Family
- Night

You can't feed a cat with cream and food in the kitchen and expect him to go catch mice.

Olav Thon
- You
- Food
- Cat
I don't know how many companies I've bought in my life, and most of them I've bought from children whose father has passed away, and they say, 'Now we're free, would you like to buy it?'

Olav Thon
- Life
- Children
- Father