Top 39 Quotes & Sayings by Xavier Niel

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French businessman Xavier Niel.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Xavier Niel is a French billionaire 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. 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, Salt Mobile SA and Eir. He is chairman and chief strategy officer for Iliad, but also a board member of KKR and Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield.

French - Businessman | Born: August 25, 1967

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

Xavier Niel

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

Xavier Niel

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

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

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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

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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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I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

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

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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.

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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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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?'

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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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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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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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Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.

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'Entrepreneur' is a French word.

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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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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

Xavier Niel

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 the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.

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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.

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I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.

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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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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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If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

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I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.

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We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.

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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.

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

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

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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 once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

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We have to help young people, because at the end of the day, we won't have an economy if we don't have them.

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Top 39 Quotes & Sayings by Xavier Niel

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