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When you start thinking about leaving, choose your moment carefully. Go out while you’re still on top, not when you’re no longer in control of events.

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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We don't want to be something for everybody, we want to be everything for some people.
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You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.
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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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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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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.
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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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The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn
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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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Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
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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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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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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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