Joe Kaeser Quotes

If you see something that doesn't make sense, ask. Change it. Think about dollars, think about your soldiers' time, think about efficiency.

As an entrepreneur, if you're the originator, you need to be faster than ever.

Technology-fueled change is happening so fast that even a six-month-old process could be outdated. Saying this is the way it's always been done not only makes you sound lazy and resistant to change, but it could make your boss wonder why you haven't tried to improve things on your own.

We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.

Technology can be part of a solution, but it takes far more than software to usher in reform.

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

Organizational changes to fix the problems usually create new vulnerabilities in the process of fixing the old ones.

Governing is about making tough decisions, but it's also about figuring out a better way to do things.

We have to look for opportunities if we're going to survive the next 50 years. We can't depend on what we have now.

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.

Every business has to figure out how to make itself more efficient. They've got to use technology. They've got to use the Internet, things like that. We can do the same thing with our state colleges.

A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.

If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.

I've often thought of successful entrepreneurs as individuals who have just the right expertise - at just the right moment - to solve the emerging problems of their time.

When you got competition, it makes people think outside the box.

I think any time you increase focus, increase speed, all those are going to help any business.