Quotes by Xavier Niel

About Xavier Niel:

Xavier Niel is a French entrepreneur and businessman, active in the telecommunications and technology industry and best known as founder and majority shareholder of the French Internet service provider and Mobile operator Iliad trading under the Free brand (France’s second-largest ISP, and third mobile operator). He is also co-owner of the newspaper Le Monde, and co-owner of the rights of the song "My Way" and owner of Monaco Telecom. He currently acts as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors & Chief Strategy Officer for Iliad.
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You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

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Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.

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Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.

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I know one business, and that's how to make software.

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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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In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.

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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.

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I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.

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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.

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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

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When you love competition, you don't want the market to consolidate.

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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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A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

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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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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

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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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From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!

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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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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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Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.

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Author Bio

  • NameXavier Niel
  • DescriptionFrench businessman
  • BornAugust 25, 1967
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionBusinessperson; Entrepreneur