Quotes By Carlos Ghosn

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

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.

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

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

I love not to be busy in a certain way.

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.

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

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.

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

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.

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

We continue to be bullish on China.