Carlos Ghosn Quotes

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

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  Leadership, Roles, Pieces

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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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  Inspirational, Commitment, Favorite Words

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

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  Character

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• Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need.
  You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

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  Leadership, Acting, Needs

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

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  Believe, Don't Believe

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• 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.

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  Hero, Next Day, May

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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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  Heart, Mean, Assets

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• Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times

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  Mean, Years, Leader

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• When you want to turn around a company, you want to make sure that the solution is coming from inside.

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  Want, Turns, Company

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• 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.

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  Japan, Three, Needs

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• 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.

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  Writing, People, Leader

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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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  Jobs, Inspiration, Done

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. December 7, 2006.

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• The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

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  Business, People, Giving

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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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  Thinking, Training, Example

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• We don't want to be something for everybody, we want to be everything for some people.

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  People, Want

  "Online Extra: A Spin with Carlos Ghosn". Interview with Brian Bremner, www.bloomberg.com. October 4, 2004.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Leaving, Events

  Carlos Ghosn (2007). “Shift: Inside Nissan's Historic Revival”, p.46, Crown Business

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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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  Impact, Profound, Achievement

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• Our objective is to position Nissan in the top rank of the car industry. Until we get there, there will be no rest.

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  Car, Position, Industry

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• Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.

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  Best Practices, Cost, Reduction

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• The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

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  People, Prudent, Convinced

  "Carlos Ghosn: What Japan Needs Is a Vision". Interview with Joyce Barnathan, www.bloomberg.com. December 16, 2002.

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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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  Hopeless, Situation, Finality

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

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  Tactics, Incentives, Tactics And Strategy

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• 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.

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  Leadership, Believe, Thinking

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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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  Team, Different, Culture

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• You need to make sure that you are where you think you are indispensable. And dedicate your task to that.

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  Thinking, Tasks, Needs

  "Nissan CEO Explains How He Runs 3 Companies At The Same Time" by Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com. November 6, 2014.

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