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

Carlos Ghosn

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Carlos Ghosn
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 9
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Businessman
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Management
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Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.
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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.
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Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
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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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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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Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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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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At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
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Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing
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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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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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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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China will be the answer to Japan's problems.
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We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
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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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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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I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
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I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.
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The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.
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