Words matter. These are the best Xavier Niel Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
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.
I don’t like clothes. I don’t especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.
A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.
‘Entrepreneur’ is a French word.
Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.
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?’
I know one business, and that’s how to make software.
I once said, ‘Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,’ but that was humour.
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.
I don’t think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.
Telecoms is a national business. There isn’t a European market. There’s no Telecom Italia in France.
Countries like France should not be naive. We don’t have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
It’s funny how the smallest things I’ve done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It’s broken.
Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
When you love competition, you don’t want the market to consolidate.
If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don’t launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.
Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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.
YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic.
I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
