Carlos Ghosn

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

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher. ”

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

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. ”

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

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