Carlos Ghosn Quotes

• You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.

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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.

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• We’re not leaving; we are just making sure we’re not hurt too much by the level of the yen. We are stunned by the yen at 78 or 79 to the dollar, which is a historical high. The country’s suffering. My duty is first to make sure Nissan gets unscathed through the turbulence to protect the company, without forgetting the fact we’re a Japanese company.

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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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• 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.

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• When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.

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• When the CEO makes a decision, people don’t come back on it.

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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.

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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.

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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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• 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.

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• The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

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• The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

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• The time is right for electric cars – in fact the time is critical.

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• The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

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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.

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• To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

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• We are facing extreme volatility.

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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.

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• We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.

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Carlos Ghosn (65)

Birth:	9th March, 1954
Nationality:	Brazilian, French, Lebanese
Profession:	Businessman

About

Carlos Ghosn was born in Porto Velho, Brazil. He is a French-Lebanese-Brazilian businessman, who is currently the Chairman and CEO of Paris-based Renault, Chairman and CEO of Japan-based Nissan, and Chairman of Russian automobile manufacturer AvtoVAZ. Following the Nissan financial turnaround, in 2002 Fortune awarded him Asia Businessman of the Year. in 2003 Fortune identified him as one of the 10 most powerful people in business outside the U.S., and its Asian edition voted him Man of the Year.

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