毫不掩饰自己强烈的爱国情绪。
10 Not all Davos Men seek global markets, either. Patrick Sayer runs a pri vate equity firm in France called Eurazeo, and complains there are still too m any barriers to cross-border business in Europe, let alone the world. So he’s focused Eurazeo on its domestic market. “I profit from being French in Fran ce. It’s easier for me to do deals,” Sayer says. “It’s the same elsewhere. If you’re not Italian in Italy, you won’t succeed.”
并不是所有的达沃斯人都在追逐全球市场。帕特里克·塞尔在法国经营一家名为尤拉吉奥投资集团的私募股权公司。他抱怨说，欧洲跨国经营中尚有太多的障碍，更别提全球化经营了。因此他的尤拉吉奥投资集团专注于国内市场。“我是法国人，在法国做生意对我而言要方便得多，”塞尔说，“别处也一样。如果你不是意大利人，却要在意大利做生意，你是无法取得成功的。”
11 That may sound like a narrow nationalism, yet it contains a hidden wisdom. Recall that Italy itself was, until 1861, not a unified nation but an aggregati on of city-states. Despite tension between its north and south, there’s no contradiction between maintaining a regional identity and national one. M ilanese and Tronchetti Provera, chairman of Telecom Italia, for example, can f eel both Milanese and Italian at once, even as he runs a company that is aspi ring to become a bigger international presence. The question is whether it will take another 140 years for Davos Man to figure out how to strike the same b alance on a global scale.