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
objects
Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.
difficult market though
Even though we are in a difficult market environment, we are still disappointed by these results.
born fourth
Every fourth PhD in the U.S. was not born there,
believed business businesses days design developing earliest focusing globe innovation start
From my earliest days developing business software, I have always believed that design has to start with the user, ... Businesses around the globe need to look for innovation by focusing on their customers.
amount cannot certain course hockey money silly three
You cannot make money with a hockey team. You cannot make money with a hotel, either, and you cannot make money with a golf club. I have all three of them. When you have a certain amount of money, you do silly things - because it's pretty to have a golf course and it's interesting to have a hockey team.
growth industry past produced rate
It's the high-tech industry which produced the U.S. growth rate of the past 10 years.
beat dear either system works
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.
came circles gretzky guy third
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.
exist few field imperative knowledge money products seemed services software
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.
added allowed basis education gave germany government grateful great key luck provided public university
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.
stays sympathize
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.
caused forgot
The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.
business company guiding leading managers provide
Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.
million touches
Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.