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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.

Carlos Ghosn

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Carlos Ghosn
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 9
Business Executive
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Engineer
Management
Writer
Carlos Ghosn dit Bichara
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Our objective is to position Nissan in the top rank of the car industry. Until we get there, there will be no rest.
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You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.
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I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
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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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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.
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Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
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We are facing extreme volatility.
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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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We don't want to be something for everybody, we want to be everything for some people.
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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.
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If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.
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We don't know where the markets are going....we have to observe what's going down, see the trends, look at every vibration on the market, prepare the technology and jump when consumers start to think one way or the other
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Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
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Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.
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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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The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
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