John T. Chambers Quotes
Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct.
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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Imagine you can tell YouTube you have an hour to watch TV, and it would give you programming based around what you have watched in the past, what your friends watched and recommended, what your favourite celebrities tweeted about, and on one piece of input from you about what mood you are in.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
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Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
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It's all about trying to be very careful about what your next role or what your next move is gonna be. It's all about trying to have longevity in this business and make smart choices.
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When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.
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One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in – I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.
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I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.
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To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
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Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.
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I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.
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I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to be the lead, but I don't dance. I just do a lot of sitting down. It's too tiring to get up and dance around. That should be coming out in 20-never.
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Great men marry great women.
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Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.
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Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.
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He was a graduate of West Point, a military academy which turned young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
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Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct.
