Stef Wertheimer

Businessman

1926-07-16

Quotes by Stef Wertheimer

• Achievements in successful export industries, which need highly skilled people, can create an area as flourishing as South Korea and Singapore.

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• Some countries were able to turn their manufacturing operations into advanced technology areas. South Korea is a great example of this, and manufacturing there is done using advanced technological methods.

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• Germany and South Korea were able to lower unemployment through success in export industries.

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• I see a lot of tech companies developing technology here and selling it abroad, but I don't see new factories being built, and that worries me, because it means we are not creating the jobs that will guarantee a good life for Israelis.

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• The problem with our region is that there are areas with oil and too much money, and then there are places such as south Lebanon and the Palestinian territories where there is no work, and instead of developing industry, they become dependent on oil money - this results in extremism.

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• The oil areas have a big problem digesting the oil. There's too much money, and the people don't know what to do with it. I'm finding all the time that we have more industries and more success stories which are not involved with oil.

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• Our partnership with the American Warren Buffett, from my perspective, is aimed at creating more jobs.

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• I built the windmill 30 years ago in Tefen, and I think it was the right thing to build at that time, and I don't think that we did much with the solar or with windmills. Not much was done. I think we were too busy.

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