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Trade brings freedom and well-being for all.
If there's more employment, people buy more.
We understand that conglomerates have no future.
Irrespective of our past, we need to look forward.
Nothing has ever become better by ignoring the reality.
One must not mix up prudence with gestures of servility.
Siemens is keen on all the same things the UAE is keen on.
Unfair trade practices should be regulated because they're unfair.
Perhaps we Germans are a bit sensitive when it comes to walls and race.
On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.
Tariffs would mean prices going up, and customers don't want higher prices.
China is the world's largest lighting market. That should not be ignored lightly.
Mobility will be one of the major beneficiaries of population growth in the world.
As a great employer, one of things we prize is political consistency and clear policy.
Like the UAE, we have been thinking of the time after hydrocarbons for a very long time.
To these economic refugees, maybe we should tell them, 'We'll call you when we need you.'
The time of old-fashioned conglomerates is over. They are definitely not going to survive.
I think Europe is well advised to form a unified economic force to be on par with the U.S. and China.
The best software companies in the world are the Indian companies like the Tatas, Infosys, and others.
From Siemens's perspective, a trade agreement like TTIP makes the U.S. and E.U. members more attractive.
At the end of the day, dividends are not being paid with margins; dividends are paid with earnings per share.
America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.
Large conventional power plants will continue to be built, but their significance for energy supply is diminishing.
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.
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.
As a global company, we have abundant resources in both capable people and capacity and also competency to make a success in India.
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.
Mediocrity was the dominating element of big conglomerates and, in the new digital age, digitalization goes exactly after mediocrity.
We need constant change, technological innovation capability, and high productivity to survive in the fierce competitive environment.
If people don't invest into new manufacturing, renewable energy, new health-care technology - these are our revenues and our bookings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
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.
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.