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" For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them. "

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" I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there. "

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" By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa. "

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" I have rules for everything. "

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" When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important. "

" The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same. "

" It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!' "

" Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices. "

" You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change. "

" Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies. "

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" I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries. "

" Men can't do much to change; we have to wear suits, although I never wear a tie, apart from in Asia sometimes. So I decided to grow my hair. "

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" We want to be number one, from the ingestion of content to the play-out to any type of channel. Everything between there, you should see Ericsson if you are a broadcaster, telecoms operator, or cable operator. "

" For us, we are moving a company that has been around for 137 years to the next level so that we can be there for the next 137 years. "

" When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets. "

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" What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore. "

" When I look into the Ericsson's mobility report that has predictions till 2018, the majority of people having mobile broadband by 2018 will be on 3G. "

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