Bernard Tapie Quotes

100 Bernard Tapie Quotes

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What counts is knowing that you can’t do everything, that there are obstacles which cannot always be overcome without sufficient power. You have to accept that you cannot overcome them, and admit that if you can’t lift fifty pounds, you should do some exercise, and not try to lift them before you’re in shape. And when you are in shape, it will be easy…
Bernard Tapie

Risk is the absolute driving force behind innovation. When you have a new idea, how do you expect people to react? Original ideas are systematically rejected by everyone, and it takes time for today’s utopias to become tomorrow’s realities. Aragon wrote: ‘real geniuses provide the ideas for twenty years later.’
Bernard Tapie

And very quickly we had to fight, make money, and this way of making money through selling, which means seducing by capturing people’s attention through words, gestures, sighs and charm, is something, I must admit, that aroused a profound sense of joy in me, which I have never lost.
Bernard Tapie

The first rule comes from Socrates who said, ‘Know thyself.’ That’s the first commandment of any boss worth the title today. You have to know yourself with enough humility to appreciate your areas of deficiency, so that you can apply the fundamental rule of complementary competence, since a boss is nothing if he’s not surrounded by associates, both young and old, lucid and pessimistic, delirious and wise.
Bernard Tapie

You have to try to tell people what they want to hear, but without ever lying to them. Make them laugh, tell them stories – it’s up to you how you do it. But under no circumstances forget that you have at most five minutes to convince them and prove your case, ten minutes at best. Each second counts, and the least error is fatal. That’s when I came up with the ‘three twenties’ formula: the first twenty words, the first twenty seconds, and the twenty centimetres of your face.
Bernard Tapie

You have to believe in your star before believing in galaxies. There should be a complete symbiosis between your profile and your path. There is no great destiny until you have chosen the cause you are going to fight for, whether your choice was based on opportunism or calculation.
Bernard Tapie

In my opinion, a man of quality should tell his father to stuff his money and build something on his own.
Bernard Tapie

It is neither conceivable nor serious to think of providing a job, or at least a productive job, for everyone. We made a mistake in trying to prevent any increase in the number of the unemployed.
Bernard Tapie

I have lied in good faith.
Bernard Tapie

[On Greg LeMond] He must take the initiative. As long as he doesn’t, he will not be a leader.



We succeeded in changing his image, and that is good.
Bernard Tapie

I want Fignon!
Bernard Tapie

[In October 2010 in a seemingly hostile interview] Why do you have to be obsessed with money?
Bernard Tapie

[In October 2010] We’ll do a law course. Since you seem to be very strong, we’ll see your skill level.
Bernard Tapie

[In October 2010] You will avoid being ridiculous listening to what I tell you.
Bernard Tapie

[In October 2010] Try to open your mind a little, you who have a closed mind.
Bernard Tapie

[In October 2010] I do not care a bit.
Bernard Tapie

Life is possible only if you believe in death.
Bernard Tapie

Mediocre people always feel the need to justify their mediocrity by putting other people down.
Bernard Tapie

What you call dreams are real for the fighters.
Bernard Tapie



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