Joe Kaeser Quotes

Joe Kaeser

Profession : Businessman

Birth : June 23, 1957

If the world believes that Iran doesn't play by the rules and imposes sanctions, then we'll follow them whether we have an opinion about it or not.

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If people don't invest into new manufacturing, renewable energy, new health-care technology - these are our revenues and our bookings.

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Mobility will be one of the major beneficiaries of population growth in the world.

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The U.K. matters with or without being a member of the E.U.

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We never said the U.K. is in bad shape if it leaves the E.U.: we said the E.U. would miss a massive opportunity. Without the U.K., the E.U. may never be able to stand up against superpowers like China and the U.S.

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We need constant change, technological innovation capability, and high productivity to survive in the fierce competitive environment.

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Innovating today is about creativity; it is about the freedom to act... if you look at the big conglomerate... it's highly regulated. It's a lot of talk about... internal controls and this and that... so there's a huge mindshift change to get the best of people.

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Some in Europe take a plane, fly to Silicon Valley, visit and look and come back and say we need to do the same thing. Well you can copy others... but if you always copy others, you never get ahead.

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The Osram brand and the Osram company is well-established in the world. Customers like them.

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Like Siemens, the UAE is big on innovation. It has become famous as a think tank for thought leadership in areas of interest to the world - and to Siemens.

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Siemens is keen on all the same things the UAE is keen on.

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Every morning you get up, risk starts.

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At the end of the day, dividends are not being paid with margins; dividends are paid with earnings per share.

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I think Europe is well advised to form a unified economic force to be on par with the U.S. and China.

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We understand that conglomerates have no future.

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The individual Siemens businesses must be able to keep up with the specialists in the industry and be at least as good as their strongest competitors.

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Large conventional power plants will continue to be built, but their significance for energy supply is diminishing.

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A company that is big is never really bad but also not really good.

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President el-Sisi of Egypt took over in a very complicated environment. He needed to give a new direction. It is quite a difficult job.

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The best software companies in the world are the Indian companies like the Tatas, Infosys, and others.

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