John T. Chambers Quotes
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I wasn't always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time - I'd earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and an MBA - and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago.
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I learned another lesson from Jack Welch. It was in 1998, and at that time, we were one of the most valuable companies in the world. I said, 'Jack, what does it take to have a great company?' And he said, 'It takes major setbacks and overcoming those.'
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I had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes.
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Never ask your employees to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself.
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I am a proud moderate republican. But I like democrats as well.
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The industry has to learn how to do CEO succession well. If your definition of success is Intel or Microsoft or HP or IBM, that's not a good track record, and yet they are the most successful ones.
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We're living through the second Industrial Revolution.
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I think we have a tax policy that was designed before Microsoft even went public. I think we've got to change - we're at a huge disadvantage around the world.
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To create a truly digital Europe will require a foundation of high-speed, high-quality broadband, both wired and wireless.
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The business community is very comfortable with Romney.
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Government leaders need to ask themselves if they are positioning their country to reap the full potential of the digital economy.
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Everything becomes connected, and cyber security becomes the top issue for CEOs. An average company has 40-60 security vendors, and they have a violation every three months with viruses.
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When a leader doesn't do his or her job, it isn't just a problem with the person. They take their whole organization down.
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Often, what I tell a new CEO asking for advice, or one of my own new leaders, is the two most important decisions that your team is going to watch is the first person you hire and the first person you promote - because you are saying that's the type of person I want.
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I had an issue with dyslexia before they understood what dyslexia was. One of my teachers, Mrs. Anderson, taught me to look at it like a curveball. The ball breaks the same way every time. Once you get used to it, you can handle it pretty well.
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We're going to become the number one security company.
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The window was open for us to play in the consumer as data, voice, video came together. This is where you have to have the courage to take good business risks because if you don't, you never win.
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If you agree with everything I have said, then I have failed.
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When you're a large company with significant market share, it's tempting to view market disruptions as a threat, but we view them as an opportunity.
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If every company becomes a technology company, business models and transitions are going to occur. From a CEO's perspective, this is going to be the biggest technology transition of all times.
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Once you put in backdoors, once you allow a government to intercept anything they want, you have to give it to other governments around the world. Once you do that, there is no privacy; there is no security. There is no protection for democracy.
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If you asked would I have done a startup in India, the answer is yes.
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Almost every move in the market is either a move to align with where Cisco is going or to align to compete against us or to utilize that technology.