Carlos Ghosn Quotes

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

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.

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

When you want to turn around a company, you want to make sure that the solution is coming from inside.

Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

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

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

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.

I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.

Our objective is to position Nissan in the top rank of the car industry. Until we get there, there will be no rest.

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.

We don't want to be something for everybody, we want to be everything for some people.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

You need to make sure that you are where you think you are indispensable. And dedicate your task to that.

Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.

Business is tough; you need tough guys.

Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

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.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.

The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.

India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.

We are facing extreme volatility.

China will be the answer to Japan's problems.

What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

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.