I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.

Retire? I will never retire.

Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.

We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.

I am a very thorough person.

I think the PC will continue to be around for a long, long time to come. We see a new range of products evolving around the PC, but it's not going away.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.

I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

I like to give people more than their money's worth.

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'