Carlos Ghosn Quotes

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.
I love not to be busy in a certain way.
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.
I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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.
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.
If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
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.
In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.
In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
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.
It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.
People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.
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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09 March, 1954
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