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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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" Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don't reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that's true of people. And I think it's true of countries. "

John T. Chambers

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True

" 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. "

" What makes Silicon Valley really work? It's a unique combination of great educational institutions - especially at Stanford - that generate engineers and a culture that starts companies. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" In France, President Francois Hollande is leveraging the next wave of the Internet to jumpstart economic reforms and create jobs for hundreds of thousands of citizens. A historically socialist government, France has had the courage to quickly implement unique partnerships with the business community to drive entrepreneurial spirit and thinking. "

" We know that veterans have valuable skills and experiences that are highly sought after in today's workforce. "

" 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. "

" I hope that the new leader, whoever they are - and I hope that it will be Hillary - will bring our country back to participation by all groups and will talk about how technology will enable not just 10% of our population, but all of our population. "

" I don't enjoy politics. I like to get things done, and I like Republicans and Democrats, and that doesn't always work well. "

" As a country, we must come together to provide the training, certifications, and jobs that our veterans have earned and deserve. "

" You've got to really enable the next generation of start-ups. "

John T. Chambers

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Generation

" I think it was a major mistake to revisit Title II. "

" 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. "

" Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct. "

" I am a proud moderate republican. But I like democrats as well. "

John T. Chambers

I Am

Republican

" 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. "

" My mistakes are always around moving too slow or moving too fast without process behind it. And it's something that, if we're not careful, we'll repeat again and again. "

" 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

" 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. "

" We'll have a sales leader go run engineering. A lawyer go run business development. A business development leader go run our consumer operations. We're going to train a generalist group of leaders who know how to learn and operate in collaboration teamwork. I think that's the future of leadership. "

" 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. "

" If you agree with everything I have said, then I have failed. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What I've realized is most leaders cannot reinvent themselves at the CEO level or at the operational level. "

" There is no secure data center in the world; they have all been broken into. We can help you prepare for it and minimize the damage when it does occur. "

" The business community is very comfortable with Romney. "

" We want a culture where it is unacceptable not to share what you know. "

John T. Chambers

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Culture

" 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. "