Joe Kaeser Quotes

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

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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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'Make in India' is great, but 'Make It Happen in India' is even greater. Make It Happen in India is more than manufacturing. It's about training, about education, about societal development and automation and engineering.

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Energy consumption has to be managed by an intelligent grid when it comes to highly populated areas. Smart-grid technologies allow for the integration of renewable energy into the grid as well as energy from distributed sources.

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Sustainability is not just about adopting the latest energy-efficient technologies or turning to renewable sources of power. Sustainability is the responsibility of every individual every day. It is about changing our behaviour and mindset to reduce power and water consumption, thereby helping to control emissions and pollution levels.

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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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Unfair trade practices should be regulated because they're unfair.

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Often, sustainability is discussed only in the context of energy. Energy sustainability is essential - but the word has a much broader meaning. It means long-term thinking about how we manage our businesses, invest in social spending, and plan for the future. This requires vision and leadership, and it requires citizen engagement.

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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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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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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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Germany benefits the most from the European Union because Germany is, by far, the biggest exporter into the Euro Zone, and therefore, it benefits. And one who benefits the most must take the biggest responsibility.

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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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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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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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One must not mix up prudence with gestures of servility.

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All our wealth and all our export power has also come by the fact that other nations were willing to see us. This is very important.

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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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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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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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The time of old-fashioned conglomerates is over. They are definitely not going to survive.

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

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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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Germany has got to deal with its global responsibilities in a mature way. There has been insufficient thought to immigration law, and we need to differentiate between different kinds of migrants. There are valid refugees whose lives are at risk at home.

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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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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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Irrespective of our past, we need to look forward.

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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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Mediocrity was the dominating element of big conglomerates and, in the new digital age, digitalization goes exactly after mediocrity.

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

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If there's more employment, people buy more.

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Tariffs would mean prices going up, and customers don't want higher prices.

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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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America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.

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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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First and foremost, energy efficiency is a major lever for reducing CO2 emissions along all parts of the energy chain - from the production of resources all the way to final consumption.

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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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It used to be that American and European companies built their products in low-wage countries, separated by great distances from the innovators who developed the products and the markets where they were sold. But companies increasingly find that is an outmoded way of doing business.

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

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China is the world's largest lighting market. That should not be ignored lightly.

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As a great employer, one of things we prize is political consistency and clear policy.

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Every morning you get up, risk starts.

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Nothing has ever become better by ignoring the reality.

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There is no question that the benefits of a permanent, robust trading partnership between the U.S. and the E.U. are a rare example of a win-win for both parties.

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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 a job machine.

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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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Trade brings freedom and well-being for all.

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As a global company, we have abundant resources in both capable people and capacity and also competency to make a success in India.

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

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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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On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.

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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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We understand that conglomerates have no future.

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If you're not in the business to improve society, you shouldn't be in business.

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