Quotes from Hans Vestberg

We have the global scale, but not everyone has 4G in the world.

The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.

Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.

When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders.

The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.

If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.

When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.

When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.

I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore.

Men can't do much to change; we have to wear suits, although I never wear a tie, apart from in Asia sometimes. So I decided to grow my hair.

For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.

By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.

I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.

It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!'

We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car.

Today there are two points where a car manufacturer has interaction with you as an owner of a car. One, you buy the car. Two, you go to the car shop to repair the car.

I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.

You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.

For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.