Posted on 03/02/2009 1:25:42 PM PST by NormsRevenge
HANOVER, Germany (AFP) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, guest of honour at the world's biggest high-tech fair, told crisis-hit executives Monday to stop their whining and invest in the future.
In a rollicking speech on the eve of the CeBIT fair, Schwarzenegger drew on references from his career as a body-builder, actor and entrepreneur to pump up his recession-knocked audience, which included German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"We are gathering in challenging times. Some may say this is the wrong time for a big trade show like this but they are wrong," the Austrian-born Schwarzenegger said.
"Losers whine but winners move forward in a strong and powerful way and I know that everyone who is here at the CeBIT is a winner!"
Speaking in English then German, Schwarzenegger said he was pleased to be back in the country where he got his start as a bodybuilder and looked forward to enjoying some "German beer and German food" again while in town.
"Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine I would come back to Germany as governor of the great state of California," he said.
In a nod to his state's budget woes, he noted the CeBIT's reputation as a major business generator and smiled: "I wish I had some of that money."
The notoriously chivalrous Schwarzenegger singled out Merkel, Germany's first female chancellor and Forbes magazine's most powerful woman in the world, for special praise.
"What an inspirational leader she is," he said, noting that she now even had a Barbie doll made in her image.
"That's really a sign you've arrived," he joked.
And he brought the house down at the end of his speech with a "Terminator" adieu: "I'll be back. Hasta la vista, baby."
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“HANOVER, Germany (AFP) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, guest of honour at the world’s biggest high-tech fair, told crisis-hit executives Monday to stop their whining and invest in the future.”
I agree with him - but, he is the one causing the crisis along with the rest of the government.
Did he take Wachter’s list of stocks to pump while he was at it?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) chats with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger prior to the opening ceremony of the world's biggest high-tech fair, the CeBIT, in Hanover. Schwarzenegger, guest of honour at the world's biggest high-tech fair, told crisis-hit executives Monday to stop their whining and invest in the future. (AFP/John Macdougall)
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (C) takes an orange from robot 'Marvin' as German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and Craig R. Barrett (L), CEO of Intel, look on during the opening ceremony of the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover March 2, 2009. The world's biggest IT fair CeBIT with 4300 exhibitors from 69 countries opens its doors to the public on March 3 and runs through March 8, 2009. REUTERSFabrizio Bensch (GERMANY)
Dis liddle ornj ball vil chanj da future!
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