Ideas are only as good as their execution

Ideas are only as good as their execution

Chinese companies may well be competitive on their domestic market, but it will be another 6 to 8 years before they become serious competitors internationally. We should not be afraid of China, but should learn from them instead.

If a German company takes over 51 percent of an Indian one, it is given far-reaching controlling rights. But if an Indian company owns the majority of a German company, it is granted only very limited influence. That is unfair.

Asia is the market and the location where production is inexpensive. The technological expertise and specialist knowledge comes from the industrialized world.

It is fundamentally crazy to build wind farms out at sea. But it works!

When German companies take over firms in India, it is seen as normal. When an Indian buys one or two firms in Germany, that is something special.