John T. Chambers Quotes
What makes Silicon Valley really work? It's a unique combination of great educational institutions - especially at Stanford - that generate engineers and a culture that starts companies.
Quotes to Explore
-
American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
-
I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
-
When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
-
I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
-
If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
-
As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
-
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
-
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
-
If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
-
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
-
To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
-
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
-
Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
-
No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
-
Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
-
Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
-
Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.
-
I can enjoy myself and express myself in the ring.
-
On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
-
One way to stay grounded in the entertainment industry is to surround yourself with very good people that will constantly remind you how uncool you are.
-
I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
-
The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.
-
What makes Silicon Valley really work? It's a unique combination of great educational institutions - especially at Stanford - that generate engineers and a culture that starts companies.
