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1. Men can’t do much to change; we have to wear suits, although I never wear a tie, apart from in Asia sometimes. So I decided to grow my hair.
2. Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.
3. I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the №1 player there.
4. I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.
5. The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.
6. In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we’re going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.
7. I have rules for everything.
8. I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can’t pick up a political fight.
9. We have the global scale, but not everyone has 4G in the world.
10. You’re going to see this ‘Internet of things’ start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
11. It’s always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it’s even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you’re doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, ‘That’s great; we can take it forward!’
12. I need to build my team around my weaknesses.
13. When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders.
14. I said we’re going to leave phones, and so we did. We sold it to Sony.
15. Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.
16. My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
17. For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.
18. When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn’t matter if it’s a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting — in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.
19. For us, we are moving a company that has been around for 137 years to the next level so that we can be there for the next 137 years.
20. We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.