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" I support both Democrats and Republicans on many issues. I'm more interested in where they are on technology. "

John T. Chambers

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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. "

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" The No. 1 country in the world to do business in is which one? To locate where you want to create jobs, where you want to have a great market? It's Canada. Even in Russia, you can build a Silicon Valley outside of Moscow. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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" You want to select the right applications at the right time for your industry. "

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" 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. "

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" To go back to a 1950s voice mentality with Title II and net neutrality would be a tremendous mistake for our country. "

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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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" 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. "

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" In 2001, we were like most high-tech companies, with one or two primary products that were really important to us. "

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" The definition of success is that the company doesn't miss a beat. Do I love what I do? Oh yeah - I love it more than ever. You've got to have that energy level 24/7. But you've also got to make sure the transition is smooth. Being realistic, most high-tech companies haven't done that well. "

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" I would say my strengths are vision and strategy. "

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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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" The Internet will change the way we work, live, learn, and play. "

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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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" 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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" Some people need a command-and-control environment. "

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" We changed the world many ways with the Internet. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" It's easy for me to see how a business proposition is going to play out, or who our next-generation competitors are, from taking this data point from this customer and another data point from another customer... and jump to Z. "

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

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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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