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China will be the answer to Japan’s problems.
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.
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 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.
People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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.
In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.
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.
To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.
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.
Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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.
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.
I don’t believe in hostile moves. I don’t believe they carry any value.
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.
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.
As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.
At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
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.
Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.
Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
You’ll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
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.
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.
Business is tough; you need tough guys.
I love not to be busy in a certain way.
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.
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.
The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
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.
You don’t build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.
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.
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.
The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.
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.
The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
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.
When the CEO makes a decision, people don’t come back on it.
