John T. Chambers Quotes
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Organized crime and rogue nation states and terrorists are very much focused on the Internet of things. The challenge that goes with connectivity is always security. The bad guys go wherever the return is, and now it's more lucrative for bad guys to focus on cybercrime than traditional crime.
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It's easy for me to see how a business proposition is going to play out, or who our next-generation competitors are, from taking this data point from this customer and another data point from another customer... and jump to Z.
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Do you have the same vision of where industry is going as the target of your acquisition? If visions differ, you might get together economically for a while, but then you are going to have problems.
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We want a culture where it is unacceptable not to share what you know.
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It would surprise you how many government and business leaders with dyslexia. Some people view it as a weakness, and maybe it is. What dyslexia forces you to do, you don't go A, B, C, D, E... to Z. I can go A, B... Z with speed.
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The No. 1 country in the world to do business in is which one? To locate where you want to create jobs, where you want to have a great market? It's Canada. Even in Russia, you can build a Silicon Valley outside of Moscow.
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We know that veterans have valuable skills and experiences that are highly sought after in today's workforce.
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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.
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I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.
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What I've realized is most leaders cannot reinvent themselves at the CEO level or at the operational level.
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I think Mr Trump is going to be a good president.
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Widening the talent pipeline sufficiently will require a generational commitment to teaching math and science, providing technical training, and mentoring young people of all backgrounds so they understand the full range of possibilities that a career in technology affords.
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I think India should be our top ally in Asia Pacific. And the two countries have so much in common, including being the largest and most powerful democracies.
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The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return.
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When I look at the success of the Cisco Networking Academy program, which has reached more than 4.75 million people since 1997, I know it could have never achieved this scale without our partners. Together we provide the tools, equipment and training for our students and teachers.
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You want to select the right applications at the right time for your industry.
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You've got to really enable the next generation of start-ups.
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When a market isn't in transition, gaining market share is hard - you're fighting to take one or two points of share from competitors.
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If we're going to acquire, what are we going to do differently? We came up with six rules of thumb. Whenever I've violated two of them, I usually get into trouble.
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In September 2014, the USIBC members indicated an investment figure of $41 billion that was likely to be invested over a 2-3 year period.
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I am a proud moderate republican. But I like democrats as well.
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The 'No.1 IT company' isn't by volume, it's in relation to business customers because those are my customers, not the consumer. Who do they view as their most important partner? That's my definition of the 'No.1 IT company.'
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As a leader, you don't get too high on the highs or let the bumps balance down. Every leader over time has probably equal amount of good luck or bad luck - or, you could argue, has good opportunities or challenges.
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It's connectivity that really makes the industrial Internet work: it's giving the right information at the right time to the right person or right machine to make the right decision.