Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.


Carlos Santana

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In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is no...
CARLOS GHOSN
I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next ...
CARLOS GHOSN
Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a prof...
CARLOS GHOSN
More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going glo...
CARLOS GHOSN
Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
CARLOS GHOSN
Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
CARLOS GHOSN
When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want...
CARLOS GHOSN
I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to ...
CARLOS GHOSN
Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different...
CARLOS GHOSN
Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much m...
CARLOS GHOSN
You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opin...
CARLOS GHOSN
If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you...
CARLOS GHOSN
Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
CARLOS GHOSN
Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
CARLOS GHOSN
The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
CARLOS GHOSN
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obv...
CARLOS GHOSN
Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvem...
CARLOS GHOSN
You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.
CARLOS GHOSN
My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
CARLOS FUENTES
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
CARLOS FUENTES
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on...
CARLOS FUENTES
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the write...
CARLOS FUENTES
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
CARLOS FUENTES
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was al...
CARLOS FUENTES
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
CARLOS FUENTES
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like t...
CARLOS FUENTES
I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty...
CARLOS FUENTES
The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic na...
CARLOS FUENTES
What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human righ...
CARLOS FUENTES
You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to dea...
CARLOS FUENTES
I love having critics for breakfast.
CARLOS FUENTES
The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.
CARLOS FUENTES
The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for ...
CARLOS FUENTES
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
CARLOS FUENTES
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who...
CARLOS FUENTES
Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000...
CARLOS FUENTES
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest fo...
CARLOS FUENTES
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and...
CARLOS FUENTES
What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what...
CARLOS FUENTES
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the blac...
CARLOS FUENTES
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
CARLOS FUENTES
To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a dif...
CARLOS CASTANEDA