Joe Kaeser Quotes
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Perhaps we Germans are a bit sensitive when it comes to walls and race.
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Every morning you get up, risk starts.
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China is the world's largest lighting market. That should not be ignored lightly.
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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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Africa's economies are gaining ground and can develop their full potential with the right partner. Siemens wants to support their sustainable development - with solutions and projects in Africa, for Africa.
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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.
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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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A company that is big is never really bad but also not really good.
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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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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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From Siemens's perspective, a trade agreement like TTIP makes the U.S. and E.U. members more attractive.
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We understand that conglomerates have no future.
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Trade brings freedom and well-being for all.
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The time of old-fashioned conglomerates is over. They are definitely not going to survive.
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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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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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If you're not in the business to improve society, you shouldn't be in business.
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On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.