Carlos Ghosn Quotes:- Carlos Ghosn, KBE (born 9 March 1954) is a Brazilian-born French businessman of Lebanese ancestry who is currently an internationally wanted fugitive.
Ghosn has served as the CEO of Michelin North America, chairman, and CEO of Renault, chairman of AvtoVAZ, chairman and CEO of Nissan, and chairman of Mitsubishi Motors.
Inspirational Carlos Ghosn Quotes
“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
“Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.”-Carlos Ghosn
“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.”-Carlos Ghosn
“Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.”-Carlos Ghosn
“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.”-Carlos Ghosn
“Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it’s going to be a gradual improvement.”-Carlos Ghosn
“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”-Carlos Ghosn
“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
Carlos Ghosn Quotes About Improvement
“To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.”-Carlos Ghosn
“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.”-Carlos Ghosn
“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
“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.”-Carlos Ghosn
“You’ll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.”-Carlos Ghosn
“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
“Incentives are not a strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.”-Carlos Ghosn
“China will be the answer to Japan’s problems.”-Carlos Ghosn
Carlos Ghosn Quotes About Company
“Design is important, it’s an important dimension in the car. It’s not the only one.”-Carlos Ghosn
“As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.”-Carlos Ghosn
“If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don’t create value in most cases.”-Carlos Ghosn
“The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.”-Carlos Ghosn
“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
“You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have a positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.”-Carlos Ghosn
“People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.”-Carlos Ghosn
“I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.”-Carlos Ghosn
“Don’t believe what I say. Believe what I do.”-Carlos Ghosn
“As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, midterm, and the long term.”-Carlos Ghosn
“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.”-Carlos Ghosn
Best Carlos Ghosn Quotes And Sayings
“I love not to be busy in a certain way.”-Carlos Ghosn
“It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.”-Carlos Ghosn
“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
“I always loved cars. I don’t know why I can’t explain it to you. It has always been with me.”-Carlos Ghosn
“When the CEO makes a decision, people don’t come back on it.”-Carlos Ghosn
“I’m the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they’re not happy, I have to take the consequences.”-Carlos Ghosn
“Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.”-Carlos Ghosn
Famous Carlos Ghosn Quotes About Environment
“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.”-Carlos Ghosn
“I don’t believe in hostile moves. I don’t believe they carry any value.”-Carlos Ghosn
“Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.”-Carlos Ghosn
“I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.”-Carlos Ghosn
“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.”-Carlos Ghosn
“We continue to be bullish on China.”-Carlos Ghosn
“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.”-Carlos Ghosn
“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.”-Carlos Ghosn
Top 10 Carlos Ghosn Quotes
“Employees are the 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.”-Carlos Ghosn
“You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.”-Carlos Ghosn
“In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.”-Carlos Ghosn
“We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.”-Carlos Ghosn
“When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.”-Carlos Ghosn
“I have my family, my children – I have a lot of outside activities.”-Carlos Ghosn
“Business is tough; you need tough guys.”-Carlos Ghosn
“The time is right for electric cars – in fact, the time is critical.”-Carlos Ghosn
“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
“You don’t build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.”-Carlos Ghosn
