Stef Wertheimer Quotes

When people work together, they have no time for nonsense.

The Galilee is a quiet place because people have to deliver on time; they don't have time to quarrel.

Tech is important, but if you look at even the successful tech start-ups, you see they employ only dozens of people at most. Tech is never going to have the impact on the job market that manufacturing has.

Industry is important, but everyone thinks money is important.

I need money to build parks. I will build more parks. That's all I'm interested in.

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.

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

If we see to it that the Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians have jobs, we will actually be securing our own future.

People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.

I made my money in Iscar. I spend my money on the industrial parks.

The fact is that we created 10 to 20,000 jobs for Arabs and Jews and Druze, which has made the Galilee a very positive place.

For us to become a nation, everyone - including Arabs, Druze, ultra-Orthodox and new immigrants - must feel that they belong. Their success is extremely important to us. If they succeed, they will come to understand the advantages of democracy and freedom.

The Berlin Wall fell because the East Germans saw the West had more. The Koreans don't like the Japanese and try to prove to them that they are worth more in the industrial arena.

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.