Carlos Ghosn Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

#Commitment #People #Interesting

“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Leadership #Roles #Pieces

“I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.”
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Thinking #Training #Example

“Business is tough; you need tough guys.”
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Guy #Needs #Tough

“You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.”
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Hopeless #Situation #Finality

“The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.”
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Car #Facts #Electric

“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

#Thinking #Technology #Vibrations

“At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!”
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Birthday #Age #Used

“The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn”
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Business #People #Giving

“Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing”
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Leadership #Acting #Needs

“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

#Leadership #Believe #Thinking

“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

#Japan #Three #Needs

“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

#Motivation #Japan #Worry

“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

#Writing #People #Leader

“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

#Thinking #Order #Europe

“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

#Team #Different #Culture

“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

#Thinking #Years #Europe

“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

#Taken #Thinking #Years

“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

#Play #Car #Batteries

“India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.”
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Growth #India #Wells

“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

#Criticism #Abnormal #Littles

“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

#Thinking #Leaving #Events

“You need to make sure that you are where you think you are indispensable. And dedicate your task to that,”
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Thinking #Tasks #Needs

“People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.”
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Ideas #Long #People

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

#Guy #Trying #Sake

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

#Crosses #Profit #Aspect

“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

#People #Profit #Function

“I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.”
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Believe #Moving

“I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.”
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Car

“I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.”
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Family #Children #My Children