Our health underpins our happiness and is a foundation of economic advancement. — Frans van Houten Economic Copy Share Image
Healthy people are not very motivated to manage their health. They just don't care. — Frans van Houten Care Copy Share Image
When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that's nice. — Frans van Houten Courage Copy Share Image
I remain convinced of the compelling case for connected care. — Frans van Houten Care Copy Share Image
By innovating and investing in health technology, we believe that we can really change the future of health. — Frans van Houten Change Copy Share Image
Price erosion in components is quite fast. If you can capitalize on that by bringing products to the market faster, you will… — Frans van Houten Better Copy Share Image
What Philips has to offer to India is to further enhance the state of healthcare for the over billion people in this… — Frans van Houten Country Copy Share Image
With access to professional coaching and support around the clock, patients will feel more empowered to manage their own physical wellbeing. — Frans van Houten Clock Copy Share Image
How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time? — Frans van Houten First time Copy Share Image
The computer can do a much better job than the human eye, as it is much more systematic in analysing tissues. — Frans van Houten Better Copy Share Image
Meaningful innovation can be an important catalyst in encouraging resilience in seniors, keeping them independent and engaged. — Frans van Houten Important Copy Share Image
The entire dynamics of the lighting market are changing. Value is moving toward systems and services. — Frans van Houten Investing Copy Share Image
We can't think in terms of designing products that we throw over the wall to customers, but instead, we need to design… — Frans van Houten Customers Copy Share Image
When you try to master the emotions of a decision and say, if you're 50 years from now and you look back,… — Frans van Houten Decision Copy Share Image
In the back of my mind was the nagging discussion: where do we take the portfolio? You can get rid of TV,… — Frans van Houten Back Copy Share Image
Even though we live in a fast-changing world with short term-ism all around, it requires years of determination to transform a company… — Frans van Houten Business Copy Share Image
Genomics, Artificial Intelligence, and Deep Machine learning technologies are helping practitioners deliver better diagnosis and actually freeing up time for patient interaction. — Frans van Houten Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
Crucially, healthcare needs to become connected. It should become effortless for medical professionals to share relevant data with colleagues around the world.… — Frans van Houten Around the world Copy Share Image
Indeed, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will greatly lead to increased consumer health awareness and self-management and will enable individualized treatment pathways supported… — Frans van Houten Awareness Copy Share Image
I think of the world as geographical regions, and it excites me to think about the opportunity that Europe can have if… — Frans van Houten Europe Copy Share Image
The shift in demand is toward partners that can improve productivity, and in part, that can be done by software. — Frans van Houten Done Copy Share Image
We invented television and stuck with it for 50 years, and then I decided to get out of that. I would like… — Frans van Houten Consumer Copy Share Image
Lumileds is a highly successful supplier of lighting components to the general illumination, automotive, and consumer electronics markets, with a strong customer… — Frans van Houten Consumer Copy Share Image
If we are to ensure that health care remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to rethink radically how… — Frans van Houten Care Copy Share Image
In the Asian marketplace, we need to come out with products every nine months, not every two years. — Frans van Houten Asian Copy Share Image
We can only compete in the world against competitors from Asia, the United States, or wherever if we look at unmet needs. — Frans van Houten Competitors Copy Share Image
It is vital that a company's culture shows a willingness to invest in employee wellbeing with no stigma or penalty attached to… — Frans van Houten Business Copy Share Image
Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical… — Frans van Houten Chronic Copy Share Image
The conventional way of selling products out of the catalogue no longer works; the relationship needs to become more sticky. — Frans van Houten Become Copy Share Image
Compassion, together with contractual responsibility for one's workforce, is a mark of a top employer. — Frans van Houten Compassion Copy Share Image
We have transformed Philips into a focused leader in health technology, delivering innovation to help people manage their health. — Frans van Houten Health Copy Share Image
You can't have a single design for all cities. The look and feel of the streetlights are very important. — Frans van Houten Cities Copy Share Image
If we can keep you healthy, that is better. If you fall sick, you go to the hospital. Both sides, Philips is… — Frans van Houten Better Copy Share Image
It has not escaped us that other competitors have also identified health as an attractive marketplace. — Frans van Houten Attractive Copy Share Image
Our strategy is focused on driving better outcomes for patients and higher productivity for hospitals. — Frans van Houten Better Copy Share Image
Changing the ways of governments usually doesn't happen quickly, but time is a luxury the world no longer enjoys. — Frans van Houten Changing Copy Share Image
The agreement to acquire Volcano significantly advances our strategy to become the leading systems integrator in image-guided therapies. — Frans van Houten Acquire Copy Share Image
As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or… — Frans van Houten Dark Copy Share Image