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'Entrepreneur' is a French word.
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Entrepreneur
French
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I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.
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Unusual
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I know one business, and that's how to make software.
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Software
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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Jobs
Desire
Share
Steve
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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France
Outsider
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A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.
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Questioning
Analytical
Survive
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If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
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Big Things
Software
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In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.
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Car
Choices
House
Choice
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When you love competition, you don't want the market to consolidate.
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Consolidate
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Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.
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More Far Than
Attuned
Richard
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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Jobs
Humour
Steve
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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Disrupt
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From France, you can call anywhere in the world for free. Americans can't do that!
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France
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I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.
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Investing
Talks
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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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Smallest
Loudest
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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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Start People Young
Start People Will
Ecosystem
Young People
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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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France
Youtube
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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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Boat
Sick
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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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France
Telecom
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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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Lunch
Mates
Each Week
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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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Traffic
Youtube
Contribute
Refuses
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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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Economy
End Of The Day Day People
End Of The Day
Day People End
Young People
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Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.
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Larry
Software
Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg
Page
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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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Aggressive
Firm
Reputation
Risk
Way
Worried
Launch
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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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Aggressive
Rates
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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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Art
Looks
People
Works
Help
Help People
Spend
Sit
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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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Broken
Developed Country
France
Mobility
Developed
Elevator
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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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Drag
No Hope
School System
French
Drop
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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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Mentality
No Reason
Paris
Real
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Valleys
Valley
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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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Candidates
Shortage
Software
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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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Faces
Internet People Know
French
Talked
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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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Favour
France
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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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Anglo Saxon
France
Latin
Rigor
Cultures
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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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Give Me
Invested
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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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Access
France
Habit
Internet
Specificity
Telecom
French
High
Getting
Market
Prices
Provide
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