Carlos Ghosn:

"The future will belong to those who used this crisis as an opportunity to transform themselves and adapt to the new conditions of the market."

Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault SA, after deciding to halt development of high-end cars and to stop a new factory project in Marocco, reworking his management team, naming a new sales boss, a new purchasing director and a new head of quality and engineering.

Klaus Kleinfeld:

"We are taking a wide range of aggressive, but prudent, measures to ensure that Alcoa maintains its competitive lead in today's challenging markets while also emerging even stronger when the economy recovers."

Alcoa CEO Klaus Kleinfeld announces to slash 13,500 jobs, cut spending, freeze hiring and it sounds like the old times at Siemens AG, in early 2007, when he was still CEO there.What you are running from is what you are running to.

Adolf Merkle:

"I have survived many so-called stock-market crashes ...The biggest problem is that we are unable to get further financing, although we are willing to provide securities. Otherwise this situation would be manageable."

German Entrepreneur Adolf Merkle 4 weeks before he got a bridge loan for his 30bn € family portfolio of companies, in an interview.It seems that only hours after he signed the financing documents for the bridge loans on Jan 5, he comitted suicide.