Carlos Ghosn Quotes
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The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn
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Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
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Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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When you start thinking about leaving, choose your moment carefully. Go out while you’re still on top, not when you’re no longer in control of events.
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Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
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Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times
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It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
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I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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You need to make sure that you are where you think you are indispensable. And dedicate your task to that.
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Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.
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I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
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The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.
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China will be the answer to Japan's problems.
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You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.
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We don't want to be something for everybody, we want to be everything for some people.
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