Xavier Niel Quotes
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.
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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
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France has a specificity - the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators, and all of the players are French. They had a habit of, let's say, getting along with each other, and the prices traditionally were very high.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
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Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
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A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.
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YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic.
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France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
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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.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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When you love competition, you don't want the market to consolidate.
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I know one business, and that's how to make software.
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I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.
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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.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'