Frans Van Houten Quotes

We knew we could put the company on the right side of history by decisive transformative action and by redefining our purpose to improving people's lives through innovation.
We started experimenting with television in 1928. For a lot of people, Philips has a lot to do with TV.
We typically sell a catheter lab to a hospital, and it sits there for the next 10 years, and we don't visit the cardiologist on a daily basis. Volcano have a disposable business. They are in the cath lab on a daily basis.
We undertook a huge internal transformation to sharpen our customer focus, step up innovation, improve productivity to ensure competitiveness, change our culture, and simplify our ways of working so that our size and scale became a competitive advantage rather than a bureaucratic hangover after years of diversification.
What Philips has to offer to India is to further enhance the state of healthcare for the over billion people in this country.
When I became CEO, I was really worried that we were in commoditized segments that were mature and no longer growing. So we made a radical pivot into health technology because that is one of the world's unmet needs.
When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that's nice.
When you try to master the emotions of a decision and say, if you're 50 years from now and you look back, 'Did we take the right decisions?' Then the decision becomes a lot easier.
With access to professional coaching and support around the clock, patients will feel more empowered to manage their own physical wellbeing.
You can't have a single design for all cities. The look and feel of the streetlights are very important.
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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Frans van Houten
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