My professional life took place in several stages:

The apprenticeship of a young engineer, trying to practice what he learned at university and gaining his first experiences of junior officer in the industry,

The maturation period, as a general consultant working for an association of companies in the oil sector, with the purpose to improve the profitability of the 1'200 members of the association, from small commercial oil distributors to the big heads of several networks of oil storages and gas stations,

An initial period of development, with my own agency as a consultant in business strategy , advising major companies in the industry in Switzerland and France as well as government agencies, and participating in the establishment of an international group of engineering in Algeria and the Maghreb.

Given my success as a consultant, I thought that I was myself able to conduct my own industrial companies, applying myself the advice I gave to others. So I expanded my activities and became the head and owner of a international group of consultants and, at the same time, of several production and distribution companies in the film industry.

Encouraged by my early success, I let myself go, forgetting all caution, and I took too big financial risks. The results were not long in coming. Most of my companies went bankrupt and I lost a lot of money. But I did not lose my friends and with their help, and with my experience and a broad network of contacts, I found myself again owner of a small consulting company. I also learned that it was better to give advices than to apply them oneself.

Thus, for over 25 years, I have tried successfully to understand the problems of those who did appeal to me for advice, trying to find a practical answer, easy to implement, showing them the way to dominate their problems, while explaining that they were their own savior, anyone other than themselves being able to get out of their situation.

So here some principles, learned from my 60 years of good and bad experiences :

- Money does not buy happiness, it is meant to be spent,

- True friends are those that you can count on when you are in trouble,

- Receive advices is only the first step to success, the most important is how to apply them,

- It is not given to everyone to know how to listen quietly before answering. Listening is a difficult art, which can only be learned through experience.

Maybe some of you could use these principles for your own well being ?