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" I don't enjoy politics. I like to get things done, and I like Republicans and Democrats, and that doesn't always work well. "
John T. Chambers
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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. "
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" You've got to really enable the next generation of start-ups. "
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" By exciting citizens about the new digital opportunity, breaking down silos of competing groups to form a truly open innovation ecosystem and shifting day-to-day resources to focus on big long-term investments for the future, countries can ensure that they break through and bridge the digital gap. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" We will see growth in the U.S., and we will selectively acquire in the U.S., but we prefer to use our global opportunity. "
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" We know that veterans have valuable skills and experiences that are highly sought after in today's workforce. "
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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 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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. "
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" We changed the world many ways with the Internet. "
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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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Will
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" 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. "
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" When a market isn't in transition, gaining market share is hard - you're fighting to take one or two points of share from competitors. "
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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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" Wearable technology will tell us how well we are sleeping and whether we need to exercise. Sensors in the street will help us avoid traffic jams and find parking. Telemedicine applications will allow physicians to treat patients who are hundreds of miles away. "
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" I like to believe that I got my business knowledge from my dad. He was able to see trends a long way off. And my mom is very good with people and emotional. "
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" If you asked would I have done a startup in India, the answer is yes. "
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You
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" There's a lot to learn from President Clinton. It kills me as a strong Republican saying it, but he was the most effective president during my lifetime. And when business got out of line, he smacked them. "
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" There are two equalizers in life: the Internet and education. "
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" 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. "
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