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" I need to build my team around my weaknesses. "
Hans Vestberg
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" We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term. "
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" It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem. "
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" I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening. "
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" You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them. "
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" 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!' "
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" We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car. "
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" 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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" Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside. "
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" Today there are two points where a car manufacturer has interaction with you as an owner of a car. One, you buy the car. Two, you go to the car shop to repair the car. "
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" I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I said we're going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony. "
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" 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. "
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" For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving. "
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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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" The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down. "
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" My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself. "
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" There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery. "
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" In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business. "
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