Joe Kaeser

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.

If you're not in the business to improve society, you shouldn't be in business.

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.

I think Europe is well advised to form a unified economic force to be on par with the U.S. and China.

Trade brings freedom and well-being for all.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.