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Xavier Niel [1967-0] French

Rank: 101
Businessman, Entrepreneur

Xavier Niel is a French entrepreneur, philanthropist, 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.

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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.		101
In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.	Car	102
I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.		103
Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.		104
I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.		105
France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.		106
I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.		107
It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.		108
Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.		109
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.		110
I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.		111
'Entrepreneur' is a French word.		112
If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.		113
I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.		114
Telecoms is a national business. There isn't a European market. There's no Telecom Italia in France.		115
I know one business, and that's how to make software.		116
The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.		117
If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.		118
You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.		119
A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.		120
Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.		121
When you love competition, you don't want the market to consolidate.		122
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.		123
I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.		124
From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!		125
I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.		126
We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.		201
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.		202
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.		203
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.		204
Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.		205
Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.		206
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.		207
Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.		208
I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.		209
I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.		210
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?'		211
Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.		212
YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic.		213

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