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

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..

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

You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all ….

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 stag….

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 wha….

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

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

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who….

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 cri….

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later ….