Quotes By Carlos Ghosn

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

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

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.

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.

I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

We continue to be bullish on China.

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

Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

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

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

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.

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

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.

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

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.

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.

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.