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" As a country, we must come together to provide the training, certifications, and jobs that our veterans have earned and deserve. "
John T. Chambers
Training
Country
Together
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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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Service
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" If you agree with everything I have said, then I have failed. "
John T. Chambers
Agree
You
Then
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Together
Business
Courage
" I think technology can change every country regardless of political party. "
John T. Chambers
Think
Political
Change
" Understand what you are acquiring and protect it at all costs. You are acquiring people and next-generation products. You are making an investment that together you can grow faster, make more profits, and take more market share. "
John T. Chambers
Investment
Grow
Together
" Every company, city, and country is becoming digital, navigating disruptive markets, and Cisco's role in the digital transformation has never been more important. "
John T. Chambers
Transformation
City
Country
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Put
Ability
Us
" What I've realized is most leaders cannot reinvent themselves at the CEO level or at the operational level. "
John T. Chambers
Leaders
Level
Most
" You've got to really enable the next generation of start-ups. "
John T. Chambers
Got
Generation
Next
" At Cisco, we are moving to collaboration teams, groups coming together that represent sales, engineering, finance, legal, etc. And we're training leaders to think across silos. "
John T. Chambers
Together
Think
Finance
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Two
Going
Differently
" Digital is going to have five times the impact than the information era. Just because you led the first transition as a company or country, that doesn't mean you will lead in this one. "
John T. Chambers
You
Transition
Impact
" People who might normally have to travel hours to a distant city to see a cardiologist can now do so virtually, through Cisco technology, at their local hospital or health clinic. Clinicians use technology to share patient reports and diagnostic images and collaborate on cases. "
John T. Chambers
Health
Technology
Travel
" I had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes. "
John T. Chambers
Doctors
Who
Had
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Three
Cyber
Security
" I think, as time passes, people will come to see that the United States' credit standing is really not quite the same level as the ones that we rate AAA. "
John T. Chambers
Credit
People
See
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Training
Together
Success
" You want to select the right applications at the right time for your industry. "
John T. Chambers
You
Your
Right
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Decision
Work
Time
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Policy
Change
Got
" The start of 2016 offers great promise as the world awakens to the power of connectivity and increasing digitization. The new Digital Age is upon us, and it is unlike anything we have experienced before. "
John T. Chambers
Power
Start
World
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Target
Vision
You
" Our next CEO needs to thrive in a highly dynamic environment, to be capable of accelerating what is working very well for Cisco and disrupting what needs to change. "
John T. Chambers
Thrive
Change
Environment
" A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that. "
John T. Chambers
Over
Leadership
Organization
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Friend
Best
Best Friend
" We want a culture where it is unacceptable not to share what you know. "
John T. Chambers
Where
Share
Culture
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Today
Leadership
Me
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Internet
Security
Focus
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
People
Government
Business
" You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better. "
John T. Chambers
Finance
Better
Candid