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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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We are facing extreme volatility.

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

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.

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

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

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

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

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

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

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

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