Xavier Niel Quotes
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I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Fundamentals make the market.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
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Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into.
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I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.
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It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
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Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
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Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.
