Businessman

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

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

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.

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

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

To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'

If there's more employment, people buy more.

From Siemens's perspective, a trade agreement like TTIP makes the U.S. and E.U. members more attractive.

Like the UAE, we have been thinking of the time after hydrocarbons for a very long time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Irrespective of our past, we need to look forward.