Xavier Niel Quotes

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• If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.
• In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.
• The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
• You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
• A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.
• Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.
• I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
• Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
• I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.
• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
• We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.
• We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
• Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
• Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
• Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
• If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
• Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
• I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
• YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic.

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