When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that's nice. — Frans van Houten Courage 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
If we are going to get a grip on escalating costs, we have to focus more on prevention rather than acute care.… — Frans van Houten Focus Copy Share Image
The global healthcare industry is undergoing a paradigm shift, providing significant opportunities for Philips to deliver more integrated solutions across the continuum… — Frans van Houten Medicine Copy Share Image
Minimally invasive surgery is the way forward: the patient goes home the next day; there are fewer complications. — Frans van Houten Day Copy Share Image
In Kenya, e-learning has taught 12,000 nurses how to treat major diseases such as HIV and malaria, compared to the 100 nurses… — Frans van Houten Classroom Copy Share Image
Perhaps sooner than we think, African innovations will help the rest of the world create lasting social and economic value. — Frans van Houten Create Copy Share Image
Employers can assist employees in looking after their health by giving guidance on energy management, sleep and healthy eating, working relationships, and… — Frans van Houten Energy Copy Share Image
Engagement with young people is always a refreshing break with routine. It's also a reminder of how we need to constantly keep… — Frans van Houten Engagement Copy Share Image
I came back to Philips and quickly realised that the TV business had a major performance issue and some structural challenges. Rather… — Frans van Houten Business Copy Share Image
Growing and aging populations are putting increased pressure on health-care systems that are already buckling under the burden of chronic diseases like… — Frans van Houten Aging population Copy Share Image
Concerns about the possible side-effects of connected care are swept aside by the expectations of the benefits when people are confronted with… — Frans van Houten Care Copy Share Image
As soon as a disease is diagnosed, we still need someone to deliver the care. — Frans van Houten Care Copy Share Image
Healthcare continues to move outside the hospital and into our homes and everyday lives. With leading doctors and psychologists, for example, we've… — Frans van Houten Change Copy Share Image
We can squabble between the siblings in Europe and not be very productive and then see China and the U.S. win over… — Frans van Houten Building Copy Share Image
In an aging world with more chronic disease, health and healthcare are enormous opportunities that we want to focus on. — Frans van Houten Aging Copy Share Image
Great companies need to reinvent themselves. We can do that: we can stay relevant, we can grow, and we can stay successful.… — Frans van Houten Business Copy Share Image
Waste does not exist in nature because ecosystems reuse everything that grows in a never-ending cycle of efficiency and purpose. — Frans van Houten Efficiency Copy Share Image
You need to dismount when your horse is dead. What was relevant 20 years ago is no longer relevant today. Therefore, you… — Frans van Houten Horse Copy Share Image
Government should create the environment and incentives to stimulate investment in sustainable innovation, take away barriers, and accelerate adoption, even in turbulent… — Frans van Houten Economic times Copy Share Image
Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used… — Frans van Houten Economics Copy Share Image
The traditional way that society looks at healthcare is to let people get terribly sick and then have an emergency room to… — Frans van Houten Change Copy Share Image
We started experimenting with television in 1928. For a lot of people, Philips has a lot to do with TV. — Frans van Houten Lot Copy Share Image
We knew we could put the company on the right side of history by decisive transformative action and by redefining our purpose… — Frans van Houten Action Copy Share Image
