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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.

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

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

We continue to be bullish on China.

I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

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

We are facing extreme volatility.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

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

China will be the answer to Japan's problems.

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

The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

I love not to be busy in a certain way.

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.

India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.

Business is tough; you need tough guys.

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

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

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.

Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

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.

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

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

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

When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.

To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

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

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

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

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

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

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

If you find things complicated, it means you haven't understood them. Simplicity is the basis of everything.

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.