Joe Kaeser Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The time of old-fashioned conglomerates is over. They are definitely not going to survive.
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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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On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.
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If you're not in the business to improve society, you shouldn't be in business.
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Large conventional power plants will continue to be built, but their significance for energy supply is diminishing.