Joe Kaeser Quotes

Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don't reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that's true of people. And I think it's true of countries.

Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

Any of our businesses will not exist in the form that is today, will not exist in the same form one year later, two years later... We have to worry about the disruptions in the business models and the practices.

Every 10 years the game changes.

You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.

No matter what business you are in, there is change, and it's happening pretty quickly.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

In any business, you have to evolve.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

When you are through changing, you are through.

If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

Sometimes, in order to be successful, a business must reset.

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

We’ve already decided to change. The question is: In which direction do we change, and from where do we start?

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

If you don't change and mix things up, you're going to get run over. One of the things we preach is change, change, change.