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By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.'
Carla Korbes
You
Stage
Back
Corps
Running
Feel
Like
Know
She
Arms
How
Doing
End
Just
Lake
Swan
Your
Keeps
At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.
Carla Korbes
Age
Theatre
Some
About
Knew
Ballet
Coming
American
Anything
Barely
Companies
European
Today, dancers have so much more information and are much more mobile. Kids are traveling everywhere to go to summer programs, funding themselves with Kickstarter - putting their dreams on the Internet and seeing if they will pan out.
Carla Korbes
Today
Dreams
Internet
Will
Programs
Dancers
Summer
Everywhere
Kickstarter
Kids
Out
Seeing
More
Putting
Go
Mobile
Information
Themselves
Much
Traveling
Funding
Pan
I've learned, after 18 years of gathering information, to eat, then check in with my body - how do I feel? I've learned to eat whatever makes my body feel good. As a teenager, I was just so confused, overwhelmed by all the information.
Carla Korbes
Good
Feel Good
Confused
Whatever
Gathering
Teenager
Eat
Feel
Check
Learned
Makes
How
Years
Overwhelmed
Just
After
Information
Then
Body
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
You
Heart
Book
Difficult
Telephone
Easy
Someone
Know
Occupy
Loved
Place
Really
Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Poet
Poetry
Necessary
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.
Carlos Ghosn
Scattered
More
More And More
Divided
Over
Global
Dealing
Cultures
Managers
Any
Going
Being
Different
Different Cultures
Planet
Companies
Company
Teams
Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
Carlos Ghosn
Car
Market
Take
Improvement
Gradual
Going
Storm
Electric
Electric Cars
The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
Carlos Ghosn
Leadership
Situation
Complex
Small
Pieces
Prioritize
Role
Transform
Them
Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
Carlos Ghosn
Saying
Time
You
Losing
Somebody
Single
Every
Every Single Time
Rubbish
Something
Merger
Identity
Make
Single Time
His
Just
Different
In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
Carlos Ghosn
People
Better
Profit
Only
Performing
Most
Terms
Make
Contribution
Companies
Company
Function
Expressed
Specific
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
You
Change
Three
Unless
Easily
Outcome
Implement
Steps
Clearly
How
Very
Forget
Offset
Going
Explain
Japan
Why
Need
When you're CEO, 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.
Carlos Ghosn
You
Trust
Job
Long
First
Both
Shareholders
Head
Feel
Reunited
Continue
Motivation
Conditions
Want
CEO
Your
Company
Second
Two
Need
Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.
Carlos Ghosn
Down
Topic
Frankly
About
Stepping
Particular
Talking
Years
Five
Now
Actuality
Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
Carlos Ghosn
Strategy
Defensive
Tactics
Incentives
Measures
Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
Carlos Ghosn
Car
Important
Design
Dimension
Only
As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.
Carlos Ghosn
Boss
Individual
Am
Motor
Very
Interested
Racing
Company
If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.
Carlos Ghosn
Try
Value
Cases
Guys
Most
Make
Sake
Size
Bigger
Create
Company
People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
Carlos Ghosn
You
People
Challenge
Will
Somebody
Long
Else
Idea
Always
Been
As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
Carlos Ghosn
Care
Long
Take
Take Care
Long-Term
Term
Mid
Short
Short-Term
CEO
When a company is facing a problem, it always takes a stance and takes a decision, but at the same time it wants to make sure of what it can learn from it, what enhancements it can make.
Carlos Ghosn
Time
Problem
Decision
Facing
Takes
Make
Learn
Sure
Always
Same
Same Time
Wants
Stance
Company
I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.
Carlos Ghosn
Family
Outside
Lot
Children
Activities
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
Carlos Ghosn
Life
Good
Great
Chapter
People
Remember
Leader
Good Leader
Say
Would
Great Leader
Results
Write
Writes
New
Obviously
Lot
New Story
Different
Want
Story
Company
Brings
Incorporate
I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
Carlos Ghosn
Me
You
Car
Know
Always
Been
Loved
Explain
Why
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.
Carlos Ghosn
Logical
Decision
Three
Somebody
Design
Think
Analyzing
Approve
Gifted
See
More
Rational
Taken
Pros
Make
Sure
Because
Am
Years
Just
After
Who
Now
Cons
Four
Designs
When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
Carlos Ghosn
People
Decision
Back
Come
Makes
CEO
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