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" When a leader doesn't do his or her job, it isn't just a problem with the person. They take their whole organization down. "

John T. Chambers

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" I had an issue with dyslexia before they understood what dyslexia was. One of my teachers, Mrs. Anderson, taught me to look at it like a curveball. The ball breaks the same way every time. Once you get used to it, you can handle it pretty well. "

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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. "

John T. Chambers

" 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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" 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

" 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. "

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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. "

John T. Chambers

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

John T. Chambers

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

John T. Chambers

" Our success at Cisco has been defined by how we anticipate, capture, and lead through market transitions. Over the years, I've watched iconic companies disappear - Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Wang, Digital Equipment - as they failed to anticipate where the market was heading. "

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" 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

" 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. "

John T. Chambers

" Government leaders need to ask themselves if they are positioning their country to reap the full potential of the digital economy. "

John T. Chambers

" 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. "

John T. Chambers

" 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. "

John T. Chambers

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

John T. Chambers

" There are two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those who don't know they have been hacked. "

John T. Chambers

" The business community is very comfortable with Romney. "

John T. Chambers

" 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

" 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

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

John T. Chambers

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

John T. Chambers

" 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

" To create a truly digital Europe will require a foundation of high-speed, high-quality broadband, both wired and wireless. "

John T. Chambers

" 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

" 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. "

John T. Chambers

" 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

" We're going to become the number one security company. "

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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. "

John T. Chambers

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

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