Carlos Ghosn Quotes

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

I've always been into cars. Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.

Any car designer always dreams about designing their own car - if they say they don't, they're lying... For me, it was never about starting my own company just to make another car.

The only magazines I read are car magazines.

My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly!

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

Building cars is highly specialized, it's hard, and it's capital intensive.

Everybody in my family who had a job worked in the auto industry or something related to it.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

I am at the top of Toyota and drive cars myself. I was also born with this name.

The car is the most regulated thing in the world. It's more complicated to make a car than it is to send a rocket to space.

Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.

We have a spirit of working together, and we have a passion for cars. And we also have a great desire to see the Ford name in the forefront of world transportation.

I come from Denmark; Fisker Automotive comes from California.

I love cars; I like the idea of manufacturing something, having a product, a hard product to sell and promote, but as time went on, I recognized that car companies are so bureaucratic and so ossified that it would take forever to work your way up. And so I went into consulting.

I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know - you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.

There's not a single doubt in my mind that the whole of Chrysler organization views itself as an American car producer.

There is a lot of development to be done at Toyota. It will be tough in the beginning, but the chances are very good, so that is why I decided on this team in the first place.

Cars are my life. They're my everything, and if it has a motor, I love it.

I would say that if there is one thing we could have done better in the last 10 years under my watch, is when we launched what we called 'the new car.' It is now called the Gen-5. We just didn't get the collaboration we needed to get from the industry, the owners, the drivers, the engineers and car manufacturers.

The general population isn't interested in the nitty-gritty of cars.

I developed a passion for cars when I was a kid. I found a tyre on the street, and I figured that I could roll it successfully. That made me love wheels.