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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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Engineer
Management
Writer
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Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.
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Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
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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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