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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.

Carlos Ghosn

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Carlos Ghosn
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: March 9
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I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.
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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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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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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.
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The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.
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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 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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Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
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Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
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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 want to be something for everybody, we want to be everything for some people.
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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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