Quotes from Isabelle Kocher

In France, we have a mania for meetings that start very early and finish very late. It wastes time and creates rigidity in schedules. Everyone knows I hate long meetings.

I realize that every time we discuss a job placement and look at a list of both male and female candidates, there's a question that comes up pretty much all the time for the woman: 'Will she know how to assert herself?' It's not meant to be malicious. It's more, 'Will she manage to take leadership of the team you want to entrust to her?'

Citizens and consumers are demanding that climate change and environmental issues be taken seriously.

Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business.

I have received so many letters, messages, emails, testimonies of women whom I meet in international conferences, wherever it may be, who tell me, 'It's great that you have balanced life and work so successfully.' I now think I have underestimated that, the 'role model' aspect of my life, I must say.

The promise of individual and collective emancipation implicit in the notion of progress appears to be broken.

We will progressively make our gas greener so that by 2050 it can be 100 percent green.

We need to replace coal with gas. We need to leave oil in the ground.

Most of the energy consumed is for heating, cooling, and transport. By massively deploying green gas, we could decarbonize all that.

Women too often say to themselves, 'It's too difficult. I'm not going to get there.' I tell them: 'Listen: do not question your abilities. Dare to do what you want to do and realize that you can do it.'

Momentum is building for the creation of a shared future, one that is more egalitarian, inclusive, and respectful of the environment - a future that ultimately offers greater possibilities for personal development and control over our individual lives.

It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world.

We all live such digital lives, there is no reason why we should not import this into our company.

Renewable energy is an essential part of our strategy of decarbonization, decentralization, as well as digitalization of energy.