Quotes from Joe Kaeser

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.

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

We need constant change, technological innovation capability, and high productivity to survive in the fierce competitive environment.

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.

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

If people don't invest into new manufacturing, renewable energy, new health-care technology - these are our revenues and our bookings.

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.

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

Nothing has ever become better by ignoring the reality.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

Irrespective of our past, we need to look forward.

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.

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

'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.

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

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.

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

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

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'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.