#la

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

— Carlos Ghosn

#actuality #down #five #frankly #now

We're not leaving; we are just making sure we're not hurt too much by the level of the yen. We are stunned by the yen at 78 or 79 to the dollar, which is a historical high. The country's suffering. My duty is first to make sure Nissan gets unscathed through the turbulence to protect the company, without forgetting the fact we're a Japanese company. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#country #dollar #duty #fact #first

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. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#clearly #easily #explain #forget #going

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. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#back #better #better job #go #job

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. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#customer #going #make #particular #please

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#constructed #deeply #discover #displaced #facts

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#dress-up #like #playing #really #silly

I like playing weird, kind of shady people. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#kind #like #people #playing #shady

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#hero #i #mean #play #something

It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#attention #big #disingenuous #flattering #goal