Jochen Zeitz Quotes

Jochen Zeitz

Profession : Businessman

Birth : April 6, 1963

I wanted Puma to regain strength with the existing logo rather than try to get rid of the past.

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Puma was all about function and not at all about design. The founder of the company always believed functionality and performance were the only ingredients that could make Puma successful and design never mattered.

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If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.

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When I started at Puma, you had a restaurant that was a Puma restaurant, an Adidas restaurant, a bakery. The town was literally divided. If you were working for the wrong company, you wouldn't be served any food; you couldn't buy anything. So it was kind of an odd experience.

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When I joined in 1990, as they say in the sport of sailing, Puma was in the doldrums. It was a difficult time, and Puma had gone to sleep.

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Every time a new CEO came, I got a promotion till I was made CEO myself.

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I was actually accepted into medical school in Italy. But then I wanted to come back and learn medicine in Germany. And while waiting, I decided to join a business school. I figured it would be useful for doctors to know some business as well!

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In the long term, Greece is an important market for us.

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When I became CEO, Puma was bankrupt on paper.

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I can well imagine making acquisitions so long as these are complementary to Puma and move it forward.

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I believe in 'business has a force for good.' You know, business has an impact on society. Of course, it creates jobs. It creates prosperity, but on the other hand, we also leave a negative footprint behind.

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The old way of doing 'good business' was based on the principle, 'the ends justifies the means.' In the future, good business will invoke 'the means justifying the ends.' The E P&L can already serve as an important tool to help this shift in commerce from generating profits with collateral damages to profits with collateral benefits.

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I'm trying to go beyond the traditional cliches of an African safari.

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It's shocking to think about how little the travel industry cares about sustainability - and it's the basis of their business!

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We need to engage rather than educate people.

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In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It's not about picking up towels or sleeping in a tent.

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I could have bought a pristine part of Tanzania. But I saw a beautiful mountain, game that could come back, and country that could be rich again.

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Walking out into the bush still feels the same as when I first came to Kenya in 1989, on the day the Berlin Wall came down.

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I'm building Segera to promote a different way of doing tourism.

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