Dutch - Businessman | April 26, 1960 -
In an aging world with more chronic disease, health and healthcare are enormous opportunities that we want to focus on.
Frans van Houten
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Minimally invasive surgery is the way forward: the patient goes home the next day; there are fewer complications.
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There's much unlocked potential in Philips.
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You can't have a single design for all cities. The look and feel of the streetlights are very important.
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I think, going forward, we need to be much more modest on expectations with regard to China growth: That's just being realistic.
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You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you need to reinvent yourself.
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We can only compete in the world against competitors from Asia, the United States, or wherever if we look at unmet needs.
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I think of the world as geographical regions, and it excites me to think about the opportunity that Europe can have if we consider it to be the 500-million-people region that it is.
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We can squabble between the siblings in Europe and not be very productive and then see China and the U.S. win over the European region. Or - and this is my preferred choice - we team up together and are the strong region that we want to be, using each others' strengths and building on our commonalities to become the smartest region in the world.
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The traditional way that society looks at healthcare is to let people get terribly sick and then have an emergency room to take care of them and spend a lot of money on acute care for people who would have been kept out of hospital in the first place if they had had a lifestyle change.
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At the core, Philips is an innovation company. And for innovation to work, you need to look for the unmet needs.
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We invented television and stuck with it for 50 years, and then I decided to get out of that. I would like people to know that we are broader than consumer electronics.
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