John T. Chambers Quotes
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We're living through the second Industrial Revolution.
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We don't go into a market without a chance of a 40 percent share and sustainable differentiation. We wouldn't get into wiring oil rigs if we didn't believe we could get 40 percent.
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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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I had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes.
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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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To create a truly digital Europe will require a foundation of high-speed, high-quality broadband, both wired and wireless.
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I don't make fun of people. I call people by what they want to be called. What does your best friend call you? What does your spouse call you? It helps you emotionally connect to people.
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Never ask your employees to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself.
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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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It's important to remember that finding a job is only the beginning of a smooth transition to civilian life for our troops - as employers, we must also ensure their ongoing success.
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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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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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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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If you agree with everything I have said, then I have failed.
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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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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 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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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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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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The business community is very comfortable with Romney.
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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.