Reconciling French people with the firm and the entrepreneurial spirit Firms create wealth and jobs. They are also the main opportunities people have to learn to live together. It is time for France to rediscover just how useful its firms are and to create the right conditions for them to grow in. It is to this that I remain committed as head of the Mouvement des Entreprises de France. I want to emphasize two related goals :
	Helping all companies to grow, particularly SMEs and VSBs... ... by helping, in partnership with government, management and unions, to lighten their load of taxes, contributions and regulations ... by enabling them to understand better the various means of achieving growth. Reaching out to sections of the public who have little knowledge of companies or who labour under misapprehensions about what companies do... ... by fostering communication, dialogue and mutual understanding, so that together we can put behind us all received ideas and stale commonplaces, and create a France that is more diverse, more modern and more open. It is my wish that, in the interests of everyone, company bosses should be in the forefront of major changes in French society.
	Enterprise is life… and life should be wonderful!