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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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" If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home. "

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" 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. "

" It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy. "

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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. "

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