Zitat des Tages von Joe Kaeser:
It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.
The time of old-fashioned conglomerates is over. They are definitely not going to survive.
The U.K. matters with or without being a member of the E.U.
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.
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.
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.
The best software companies in the world are the Indian companies like the Tatas, Infosys, and others.
Like the UAE, we have been thinking of the time after hydrocarbons for a very long time.
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.
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.
On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.
As a global company, we have abundant resources in both capable people and capacity and also competency to make a success in India.
We understand that conglomerates have no future.
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.
If people don't invest into new manufacturing, renewable energy, new health-care technology - these are our revenues and our bookings.
Irrespective of our past, we need to look forward.
Mediocrity was the dominating element of big conglomerates and, in the new digital age, digitalization goes exactly after mediocrity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
China is the world's largest lighting market. That should not be ignored lightly.
We need constant change, technological innovation capability, and high productivity to survive in the fierce competitive environment.
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.
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.
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.
At the end of the day, dividends are not being paid with margins; dividends are paid with earnings per share.
As a great employer, one of things we prize is political consistency and clear policy.
