Humiliation Converted to Conquest Energy

“"I rolled the 'r's, I had an accent. They made me feel that I was dressed poorly. I was met with sneers and ridicule. I did not accept it. They didn't make fun of me for long. I was not the strongest, but I was the most fighter. I discovered young people who, undoubtedly because of their bourgeoisie attitude, were convinced they were in the right place, acting as they should and treating those who did not belong to their environment as a slightly inferior race. We were allowed to go out once a month with our parents. I remember when my mother came to pick me up in the visiting room with her basket, dressed as a peasant, they ridiculed her." As long as one knows him, they could hear how these humiliations were indelible and have marked his future behaviour, but, what mattered most, was that the taste for revenge did not lead him to regret or bitterness, on the contrary to conquest, not to make a place among those who excluded him, but to surpass them by applying other rules of conduct than their own.”

“"The difference". Key word. Let's try to start by putting behind this term what François Pinault means when he sets as a rule of life that one must, day by day, "make the difference". It is then positive. But the difference, as he perceived it, if not in his childhood, at least in his adolescence, was a handicap. He therefore had to learn to reverse it.”