When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.

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

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 criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

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.

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

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