John T. Chambers Quotes

Today's world requires a different leadership style - more collaboration and teamwork, including using Web 2.0 technologies. If you had told me I'd be video blogging and blogging, I would have said, 'No way.' And yet our 20-somethings in the company really pushed me to use that more.

John T. Chambers

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• I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Cowboy
  • Hat

• I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mean
  • Things
  • Thought

• If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Country
  • Die
  • Suffering

• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Taken

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Mind

• Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Done
  • True
  • Think

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Mad

• Fred Segal was founded - by none other than Fred Segal - as a tiny jeans retailer in 1968. In the 1970s Segal, began selling space to employees, starting with his nephew Ron Herman.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Space
  • Starting
  • Jeans

• I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Age
  • Health
  • Service

• You're always going to have terrorism.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • You
  • Always
  • Terrorism

• I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • World
  • Fun
  • Opinion

• Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Better

• A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Writing
  • Comedy
  • Acting

• If you are playing King Lear you are the centre of attention anyway. You don't need to draw attention to yourself. It's all laid out for you.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Attention
  • King
  • Yourself

• For me he's just a hoax. It's empty. It's not interesting. It's dead. Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of - is all the critics' darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it's a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie's got is absolutely unbelievable.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Respect

• I don't think I would want to do an animated movie because I've already made so many hours of animation that what's the point? I'd want something new and weird to challenge me in a different way.

  

  Christopher McCulloch
  • Different
  • Movie
  • Challenge

• No, you don't wanna get me started. Jell-O with hair all in the mold. I'd be like, 'Damn, man, how are you gonna mess up Jell-O?' Jell-O is so wholesome and family-like. It just ruins it for me. To have a hair in there, yeah. I mean, I'm like, 'Come on, Bill Cosby pumps this, man!'

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Started
  • Ruin
  • Jello

• I hope I can help inspire people to go for their dreams.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • People
  • Help
  • Hope

• Today's world requires a different leadership style - more collaboration and teamwork, including using Web 2.0 technologies. If you had told me I'd be video blogging and blogging, I would have said, 'No way.' And yet our 20-somethings in the company really pushed me to use that more.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • World
  • Different
  • Today