Joe Kaeser Quotes
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An increased push for energy efficiency, renewable energy technology, electric mobility - along with the growing digitalization movement and a universal carbon pricing structure - would speed up the carbon-free future and the rise of a global middle class we desperately need. We can and must all do our part.
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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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Artificial intelligence is here and being rapidly commercialized, with new applications being created not just for manufacturing but also for energy, healthcare, and oil and gas. This will change how we all do business.
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While the transition from a combustion-powered society to electrification is already underway due to market forces alone, this transition will take generations without support. But we have every incentive - environmental, economic, and yes, moral - to speed the evolution.
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As a great employer, one of things we prize is political consistency and clear policy.
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Machines have the ability to assemble things faster than any human ever could, but humans possess the analytics, domain expertise, and valuable knowledge required to solve problems and optimize factory floor production.
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I can imagine a future in which we give investors the opportunity to invest not just in the companies Siemens Healthineers or Siemens-Gamesa renewable energy, but also in a high-performing digital industry business.
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The main task for the Middle East is geopolitical stability. The rest of the world has to help to get this region straight, and once that's been achieved, the region has a great future.
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Irrespective of our past, we need to look forward.
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Mediocrity was the dominating element of big conglomerates and, in the new digital age, digitalization goes exactly after mediocrity.
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Nothing has ever become better by ignoring the reality.
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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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Ultimately, it is the convergence of artificial and human intelligence that will enable manufacturers to achieve a new era of speed, flexibility, efficiency, and connectivity in the 21st century.
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I'm a father with two daughters, and I don't want them to feel that they have to go and work in China when they are older.
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One must not mix up prudence with gestures of servility.
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Like the UAE, we have been thinking of the time after hydrocarbons for a very long time.
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To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'
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The Osram brand and the Osram company is well-established in the world. Customers like them.
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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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Perhaps we Germans are a bit sensitive when it comes to walls and race.
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America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.
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Trade brings freedom and well-being for all.
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By reducing trade barriers, improving intellectual-property protections, and setting international rules of the road, TTIP has the potential to improve America and Europe's global competitiveness and strengthen their comparative advantages.
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People need to realise that their governments are sitting on finite resources that will run out one day. Subsidising power and water is not an ideal solution and does not help reduce consumption. We need to educate people, from a young age, about the importance of conserving energy in their daily lives.