91 Quotes by Frans van Houten

Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer.

As soon as a disease is diagnosed, we still need someone to deliver the care.

If we are going to get a grip on escalating costs, we have to focus more on prevention rather than acute care. Technology can help us do that.

Employers can assist employees in looking after their health by giving guidance on energy management, sleep and healthy eating, working relationships, and helping maintain a sense of purpose at work.

We can't think in terms of designing products that we throw over the wall to customers, but instead, we need to design products that are upgradable and maintainable and that can be mined for materials and components that can be reused.

What Philips has to offer to India is to further enhance the state of healthcare for the over billion people in this country.

By innovating and investing in health technology, we believe that we can really change the future of health.

Certain product categories become less attractive for us because, as they become mature, they become low-cost, and hence, there is less to invent. There is less to invent in a television, whereas in heath technology, there is a lot to invent. So we wanted to put our innovative power to work where it really matters.

If we can keep you healthy, that is better. If you fall sick, you go to the hospital. Both sides, Philips is present.