Hasso Plattner
Hasso Plattner
Hasso Plattneris a German businessman. A co-founder of SAP SE software company, he has served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP SE since May 2003...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth21 January 1944
CountryGermany
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Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.
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Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don't know and don't want to know. Either be better informed, or don't do it.
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In the '80s, when Gretzky came to the World Championships in the second or third game, you'd see this guy skating circles around the other ones. Unbelievable.
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I made my money with software - encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today - and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back.
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I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.
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Fans don't like owners. They know they are somewhere - actually, in Germany, some owners are anonymous. Fans don't sympathize with owners, so ownership stays in the back.
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The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.
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Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.
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Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.
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Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans.
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It's not good if owners of sports teams are talking to sports journalists, bypassing the manager. That goes in the wrong direction wherever it happens. Therefore, I'll refrain from doing this at all.
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The software industry has to become better in componentization. That's a clear focus for most of the software companies. How components look, how they are maintained, the ability to maintain them separately.
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I create, for whatever reason, a busy schedule, but I watch hockey, all the games, either on the PC or TV. The world is now HD, and this is very good.
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We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.