I was the only guy standing in front of the tide.

The main factors we reviewed were currency risks ? both mid and long-term, the record of productivity and performance at our Sunderland plant, the effect of assistance from the UK and opportunities coming from our...

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

This is not a preoccupation of Renault alone, it is a preoccupation for all manufacturers trying to figure out what will be the environment of Formula One.

Without any doubt I don’t like Formula One with an average show, I like Formula One with a strong show, … We are doing well at the moment and as long as we keep doing...

Are we satisfied? No, we are not satisfied, obviously.

The combination of growth and cost reduction will allow Nissan to achieve a consolidated operating profit of 4.5 percent of sales by 2002.

We think there is a real threat that logically we could be brought to the conclusion that the best investment is not in Sunderland, but maybe somewhere on the (European) continent,

We want to offer all kinds of technology. I’m trying to tell the team, the Nissan team, don’t make the choice for the consumer. Let them choose between the palette of technologies we can offer.

As long as it is a good investment for Renault, we’ll stay.

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

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

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

The only breakthrough technology is fuel cell because this is the one that guarantees you are out of oil dependency,

We’re going to see at best, stagnation in the market, … Most of the growth will come from the developing countries.

Renault is not in crisis, but Renault is fragile.

Our goal is to move as many people as possible to the new location. Fifty percent of current employees would be the best possible result.

At Nissan we made two decisions,

But this will take a very long time.

What we are foreseeing is the situation of the market is not going to be fundamentally different than in 2004,

The board of Nissan decided to relocate our North American headquarters, and we’re coming to Tennessee.

We are going to see how things go year by year. We’ll look at the situation in 2007, then 2008, and again in 2009.

The plant closures, however painful, will guarantee the future of the remaining plants by allowing them to be industry leaders, both in terms of productivity and cost effectiveness,

China will be the answer to Japan’s problems.

In the car industry, superior design is critical. Product design defines the first impression the customer has about our products. With one look the customer makes their decision about their appeal. Of course, an attractive...

The bonanza that existed, where you only had two or three automakers with high prices, isn’t going to come back,

As long as we perform at the top level there will not be so much question about our future in F1. There are questions about the format of the sport from 2008, but if we...

At the moment it is an investment because it is getting good results. The important thing is to see how we make the most of those results and transform it into commercial success. At the...

not for the good of Renault, but for the good of Nissan.

It was spooky silent for the first few minutes … We’ve been expecting this for a couple of months now, so it wasn’t a shock, but it wasn’t good news.

The costs of doing business in Southern California are much higher than the costs of doing business in Tennessee.

My wife has a Modus. She tells me she loves it; I say to her, ‘I wish there were more like you’. We imagined a segment but it turned out to be much smaller. We...

We are not particularly optimistic about the U.S. market in the next six months and next year.

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

We are the car manufacturer who grew the most, not only in growth rate but in absolute numbers, which was very rewarding … since we were not on the front line of the incentive game,

We’re going to be facing in 2006, 2007, I’d say at best stagnation. It’s an industry where you have to move all the time. You have to question yourself all the time. You have to...

Manufacturers must reawaken passion for cars and trucks and restore the value to the minds of our customers.

The European market is in a very tough situation, where there’s no sign of growth in the future.

I have never been too bullish on the US market and have been looking for signs of the end, and if this trend continues into November I am afraid this may be the beginning of...

At the end of September, we declared the revival of Nissan complete, … Nissan continues to move at the right pace in the right direction.

At the same time Nissan did the Dakar Rally for a couple of years but the results were not up to the expectations that I wanted from the team. We pulled out.

We’re interested in when the car goes into the showroom, what are people going to think?

We’ll encourage our employees to make their decisions based on an existing experience,

the next few years.

Russia has been a very successful market for Nissan and we see great prospects for the future. Russia is an important part of our global growth strategy. This investment demonstrates our confidence in the high...

We don’t know where the markets are going,

Even though hybrids are a solution, they’re not the solution.

You’d be hard-pressed to name another industry in which so much emphasis is placed on discounting to move products.

You’re going to see the same story everywhere,

Russia is an important part of our global growth strategy.