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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. "
John T. Chambers
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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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" I wasn't always interested in technology. I had been a student for a long time - I'd earned a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and an MBA - and decided that I wanted to work in a large corporation, focusing on finance and law, in either New York or Chicago. "
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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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" 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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" I think Mr Trump is going to be a good president. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes. "
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Had
" The business community is very comfortable with Romney. "
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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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Us
" 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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" 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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Health
Technology
Travel
" You want to select the right applications at the right time for your industry. "
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Right
" 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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" In 2008, we began an initiative to outsource projects from our Israeli office to three companies in the Palestinian Territories. "
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Our
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" I am a proud moderate republican. But I like democrats as well. "
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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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" The industry has to learn how to do CEO succession well. If your definition of success is Intel or Microsoft or HP or IBM, that's not a good track record, and yet they are the most successful ones. "
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Well
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" I support both Democrats and Republicans on many issues. I'm more interested in where they are on technology. "
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" There are two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those who don't know they have been hacked. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" We're going to become the number one security company. "
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" I think it was a major mistake to revisit Title II. "
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" We're very much focused on full shareholder-value return. We have to get our stock moving. But I won't do something in the short run that I don't feel is right for the long run. That, I've watched many CEOs do. "
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" 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. "
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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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" We changed the world many ways with the Internet. "
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Internet
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