Bollore

""Vincent manages and thinks like an industrialist. He was one of the first to speak in terms of the global market in his activities [capacitors, logistics, transport, oil...]. He should not, therefore, be reduced to a person who only relies on opportunistic moves.""

"With Challenges, around the same time (2016), the tycoon is a little less diplomatic: "I torpedo structures. Here, everyone was working in their own stronghold, whereas Vivendi means 'let's live together'.""

"At the turn of the century, the majority of the workforce was employed in two factories that produced plastic film, a legacy of thin paper for capacitors. But already, teams were focusing on what was to become the group's gem: energy storage, notably through a "solid" battery recognized as "the most promising technology" in the company's official language."

"It takes all the diplomacy of the great banker, and the magic of the served Lafite Rothschild castle, to forget the stock market battle taking place between the bosses of BNP, Paribas, and Société Générale, all around the table."

"Today, father, children, and grandchildren embark on the Paloma and, despite its 65 meters and seventeen crew members, simply go to have lunch in front of the two vineyards purchased by the group in 2001, on the other side of Pampelonne Beach."

"But he also has the ability to detect where the money is and to extract it from obscure or undervalued subsidiaries."

"the application of the Florange law, instituting double voting rights for long-term shareholders, thwarting a maneuver by Anglo-Saxon funds that did not want to hear about it. And de facto consecrated his position as a reference shareholder."

"Nothing either for this media professional who is unemployed, to whom the future tycoon had promised, on his honor, a well-filled permanent position."

""With common traits of the tribe that he pushes to the extreme. More of a corsair, as he adds to the self-confidence of a tycoon the relaxation of a privileged son, so that nothing scares him. This hybrid of the Little Prince and Machiavelli does not believe in prohibitions and rejects the very idea of the impossible."

""Of all the bosses I've had, he is the least sensitive to his image," notes the communication manager of one of the empire's satellites. "He has a sense of time that is so unique to him, and nothing affects him.""

"He took advantage of this to sell Delmas to CGM in 2006. "As I like to say, a good entrepreneur is first and foremost a good cycl-ist!""

""My approach intrigued people, it had something a little crazy about it. My offensive attitude, which resembled more of an outburst than a carefully thought-out decision, was going to win people"

""I'm told that we have no certainty about the profitability of this investment. That's true. It's not a problem for us. At some point, you have to start and take the risk. The story of a company is inevitably filled with risks, adventures. With one imperative: these adventures must be reasonable in relation to the group's wealth and, in the case of the battery, we have the means to take this risk.""

""When you have a lazy and rich kid upbringing, you develop a sixth sense of finding collaborators who will do the work for you." This fable of a decentralized group, he was already serving it in his endless interview with Jeune Afrique in 2009: "We have ten professions in the group, ranging from paper to airport terminals, logistics in Africa, transport commission for the whole world, media, etc. Every month, the bosses of these activities come to headquarters and present to us in an hour their functioning: results, problems, hopes, investments. So I have knowledge of things through this monthly hour of reporting.""