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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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Management
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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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We don't want to be something for everybody, we want to be everything for some people.
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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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China will be the answer to Japan's problems.
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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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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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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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Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
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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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I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.
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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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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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I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.
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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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The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.
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We are facing extreme volatility.
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Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.
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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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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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