John T. Chambers Quotes
Our success at Cisco has been defined by how we anticipate, capture, and lead through market transitions. Over the years, I've watched iconic companies disappear - Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Wang, Digital Equipment - as they failed to anticipate where the market was heading.
Quotes to Explore
-
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
-
Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
-
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
-
I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
-
As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
-
Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
-
I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
-
Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
-
Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
-
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
-
From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
-
I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
-
I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
-
I never thought of being disadvantaged.
-
During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
-
I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
-
I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
-
I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
-
My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.
-
My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.
-
I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
-
Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his presence beside me-only his absence."
-
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.
-
Our success at Cisco has been defined by how we anticipate, capture, and lead through market transitions. Over the years, I've watched iconic companies disappear - Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Wang, Digital Equipment - as they failed to anticipate where the market was heading.
