Quotes by Carlos Ghosn - Page 2

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 / Businessman
Events
Leaving
Thinking
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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 / Businessman
Certain
Hero
May
Next
Next Day
Villain
Been
Certain Point
Day
Point
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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.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Japan
Losing
Motivation
Worry
Production
Maintain
Manufacturers
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You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Please
Customer
Rewarded
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More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Culture
Different
Different Cultures
Divided
Managers
Team
Cultures
Dealing
More And More
Planet
Scattered
Teams
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Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Euro
Europe
Order
Solutions
Thinking
Together End Of The Day Day
Breaking
End Of The Day
Hold
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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.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Assets
Company
Guts
Heart
Mean
Valuable
Time Good Your
Most
Time Good Heart
Employees
From Time To Time
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In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Contribution
Function
People
Performing
Profit
Expressed
Specific
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There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Lessons
Replicate
Manufacturer
Successes
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When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Decision
Stance
Time Decision Always
Facing
Same Time
Wants
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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.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Difficulty
Doubt
Europe
No Doubt
Preparing
Stagnation
Thinking
Tough Times
Years
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You go to a plant not only to pat the people on the back, but to tell them about the opportunities they have to do a better job. Quality is one of the opportunities they have to do a better job.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Plant
Better Job
Pat
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Abnormal
Criticism
Little Bit
Littles
Good Start Your
Bit
Good Your Start
Falter
Obviously
Press
Start
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Inspirational
Commitment
Committed
Favorite Words
Interesting
Always People Way
Favorite
Word
Reliable
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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.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Positive
Decision
Made
Mind
Negative
Opinion
People
Just
Sure
Make
Before
Blending
Those
Positive Mind Your
Listen
Well
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We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Certain Point
Hoping
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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
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Technology
Looks
Thinking
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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.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Design
Analyzing
Gifted
Logical
Rational
Taken
Thinking
Years
Ahead
Approve
Cons
Designs
Pros
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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.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Car
Batteries
Electric
Motor
Play
Shapes
Battery
Below
Different Shapes
Electric Cars
Engine
Smaller
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We have some worse scenarios for which we need to prepare as companies. For the moment, we're planning for the worst, and the worst is now, and the car market is down more than 15 percent in France. There is so much uncertainty.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
France
Planning
Scenarios
Uncertainty
Prepare
Worse
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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.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Achievement
Expecting
Impact
Leaving
Obstacles
Profound
Achievements
Overcome
Allowed
Delivered
Leads
Performance
Profound Impact
Value
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I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Good Leader
Great Leader
Leader
People
Writing
Life Good Great
Brings
Chapter
Incorporate
New Story
Obviously
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When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Ceo
Conditions
Reunited
Shareholders
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Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Acquire
Bathing
Childhood
Environment
Giving
Intuition
Multicultural
Reflexes
Spontaneous
Basic
Instincts
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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.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Japan
Needs
Steps
Three
Clearly
Easily
Explain
Implement
Offset
Outcome
Unless
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When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Jobs
Conditions
Motivation
Reunited
Shareholders
Two
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If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Conclusion
Including
Justify
Organization
Big Enough
Consists
Efforts
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I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. I want to make sure there is no discrepancy between what we say and what we do. If you preach accountability and then promote somebody with bad results, it doesn't work. I personally believe the best training is management by example. Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
Carlos Ghosn / Businessman
Leadership
Believe
Thinking
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