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

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.

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

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.