Loyalty Repaid With Loyalty

“One evening in 1973, Hubert Guidai, his first deputy in Rennes, apologized for having to leave him to pick up his daughter from nursery. The next morning, François Pinault asked him where his wife worked and what she earned. He immediately increased his colleague's salary by the announced amount so that his wife could stop working.”

“have always been uncompromising towards those who, having claimed responsibilities, subsequently proved incapable of assuming them, whether through incompetence or lack of work"”