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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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• Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

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• Don’t believe what I say. Believe what I do.

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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.

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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.

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• At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

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• As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

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• You’ll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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• I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

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• I mean, when you’re a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you’re going to be the most optimistic person.

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• Business is tough; you need tough guys.

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• You don’t build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

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• Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

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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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• I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

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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.

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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.

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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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