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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. "
John T. Chambers
Customer
Business
Past
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" 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
" The business community is very comfortable with Romney. "
John T. Chambers
Business
Comfortable
Community
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Leadership
Leader
Future
" I learned another lesson from Jack Welch. It was in 1998, and at that time, we were one of the most valuable companies in the world. I said, 'Jack, what does it take to have a great company?' And he said, 'It takes major setbacks and overcoming those.' "
John T. Chambers
Overcoming
Time
Great
" 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
" 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
" In September 2014, the USIBC members indicated an investment figure of $41 billion that was likely to be invested over a 2-3 year period. "
John T. Chambers
Over
September
Year
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Slow
Mistakes
Fast
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Business
People
Good
" 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.' "
John T. Chambers
Partner
Business
Important
" The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return. "
John T. Chambers
Investment
Service
Return
" I would say my strengths are vision and strategy. "
John T. Chambers
Strengths
Vision
Would
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Move
Going
Technology
" I think India should be our top ally in Asia Pacific. And the two countries have so much in common, including being the largest and most powerful democracies. "
John T. Chambers
Common
Top
Think
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Unique
Work
Great
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Prepare
You
Broken
" Never ask your employees to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself. "
John T. Chambers
You
Yourself
Never
" 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
" When I think about developing solutions, I think about how we can use technology to make a difference. "
John T. Chambers
Think
Technology
Make A Difference
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Fighting
You
Two
" 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
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Success
Transition
You
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Government
Democracy
World
" 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
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Opportunity
Global
Will
" I think technology can change every country regardless of political party. "
John T. Chambers
Think
Political
Change
" I think Mr Trump is going to be a good president. "
John T. Chambers
I Think
Think
Good
" 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. "
John T. Chambers
Create
World
You
" The Internet will change the way we work, live, learn, and play. "
John T. Chambers
Play
Work
Change
" 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