Quotes from Xavier Niel

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.

Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

YouTube is a problem. It has very big traffic, but it refuses to contribute to the weight of that traffic.

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

Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

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