John T. Chambers Quotes
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The political gridlock in Washington leads us to conclude that policymakers don't have the ability to put the public finances of the U.S. on a sustainable footing.
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This will be the first time in my lifetime I'm voting for a Democrat. I'm going to vote for Hillary Clinton. I've already voted.
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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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We're living through the second Industrial Revolution.
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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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Never ask your employees to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself.
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We're very much focused on full shareholder-value return. We have to get our stock moving. But I won't do something in the short run that I don't feel is right for the long run. That, I've watched many CEOs do.
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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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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.
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I had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes.
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Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct.
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If you agree with everything I have said, then I have failed.
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What NDS did is allow us to move into video capability with large service providers or cable providers - and the ability to do this out of the cloud. And that allows you to do it faster.
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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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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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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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We're going to become the number one security company.
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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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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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The business community is very comfortable with Romney.
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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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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.