Xavier Niel Quotes

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.

Digital is going to have five times the impact than the information era. Just because you led the first transition as a company or country, that doesn't mean you will lead in this one.

Silicon Valley has been this global engine of innovation and economic growth over the last few decades, but a tidal wave of innovation that has been focused very much in the digital realm.

We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape.

Beyond the traditional areas of cooperation, we have entered the digital age with its own opportunities. The area of fintech needs to be explored.

I dream of a Digital India where e-Commerce drives Entrepreneurship.

The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs.

The Internet is just a chance to do something. Nowhere else can you go, 'I have an idea, I can write this idea, and I can execute this idea.'

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

The world is facing a new networked, digital lifestyle, and we will ensure that Canon remains ahead of the game.

I had learnt from my years of being in the services business, like networking and closely watching the early days of the Internet, that scale leads to many possibilities.

The digital explosion has been so explosive.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. This revolution has produced the most powerful and diverse spur to innovation of any in modern times.

The Internet is the dynamic engine that is driving our economy today and we must keep that open.

Trade ministers lag behind technology or the development of technology.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

Government leaders need to ask themselves if they are positioning their country to reap the full potential of the digital economy.

Fast, cheap, abundant broadband is a fantastic economic accelerator, enabling breakout businesses and kick-starting new industries.