Joe Kaeser Quotes
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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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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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Every morning you get up, risk starts.
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A number of major companies - from PepsiCo to Walmart to U.P.S. - have recognized that corporations have a responsibility to address the causes of climate change before it is too late. We do not have to wait for an international treaty or new regulations to act.
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China is the world's largest lighting market. That should not be ignored lightly.
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From Siemens's perspective, a trade agreement like TTIP makes the U.S. and E.U. members more attractive.
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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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I'm not going to be the one who turns out the last lights of the last conglomerate. So we need to reinvent ourselves all the time.
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In the developed world, we are surrounded by electronics - from the computers on our desks to the smart phones in our pockets to the thermostats in our homes to our data in the virtual cloud.
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We have to prove that digital manufacturing is inclusive. Then, the true narrative will emerge: Welcome, robots. You'll help us. But humans are still our future.
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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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A company that is big is never really bad but also not really good.
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The time of old-fashioned conglomerates is over. They are definitely not going to survive.
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We understand that conglomerates have no future.
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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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On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.
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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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If you're not in the business to improve society, you shouldn't be in business.