John Chambers Quotes (70 Quotes)

It partly depends on the currency regimes in place in the country.

We thought this downturn would last for two quarters, ... Now we are saying that it will last for at least - at least three quarters.

We must ... balance the fact that innovation inside the network is just as important as innovation in services and devices connected to the Internet. Broadband Internet access service providers should remain free to engage in pro-competitive network management techniques to alleviate congestion, ameliorate capacity constraints, and enable new services.

Companies such as Echelon are poised to help drive this change with Cisco and extend the power of the Internet from business to the home.

If you can't retain the people after an acquisition, it's not worth it.

We are very happy to be reporting that our pro-forma earnings passed the 1 billion mark for the first time.

This marks the eighth consecutive quarter of year-over-year top-line growth for Cisco.

We remain confident about the market opportunity ahead of us over the next three to five years.

We want to be the most predictable, boring growth company,

To be sure, real differences of opinion existed between the groups. Compared to pro-life participants, pro-choice participants had more favorable personal attitudes toward the pro-choice issues and less favorable attitudes toward the pro-life issues, and vice versa.

Q1 was a solid quarter for Cisco, with balanced execution across most of our geographies, market segments and product categories, ... We are especially pleased with the improving business momentum in the U.S. and Asia Pacific, the strength of our product families and the accelerated growth of the commercial marketplace, which has become our fastest growing customer segment.

This proves our strategy is working in terms of the convergence of voice, video and data.

There's room for another planet between Mars and Jupiter. Given that planets formed everywhere else, why couldn't another planet have formed there

We're working toward the ability for all Cisco devices to work together and communicate with each other to stop attacks. The idea is that one device can warn another device of a threat.

While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

where, instead of my hair falling out, I actually grew some hair.

We see no major changes in that model for the next several years. In fact, we are more optimistic about Cisco's position and opportunities in both the enterprise and service provider markets than at any point in the last several years.

What we want to watch is whether this is a short-term bump or not,

Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct. Today, the differences have blurred between these customer segments and Cisco is in a unique position to provide the industry's broadest family of products united under a consistent architecture designed to help our customers improve productivity and profitability.

Our overall guidance is to be more conservative in the third and fourth quarters. We expect a much wider range of estimates.

In the next two to three years there will probably be only three to five players in this area. The chances to gain or lose market share are exciting.

You can't fault government for seizing that opportunity. But it has an impact on Barbados' current account deficit and it does bring with it attended risks. And, therefore, you have to ask whether or not the tourism business that is going to be generated from the publicity around the cricket matches will be sustained after the cricket matches are over.

China will become the IT (information technology) center of the world. We believe in giving something back and truly becoming a Chinese company.

What's happening is that the two groups assume that the nature of the debate is really a matter of disagreement about their own sides' core issues. Each side is assuming that people in the other group oppose what they hold most dear to themselves - what's most important to their side - but in fact their adversaries really don't oppose them.

I would say this for Montserrat one of its credit weaknesses is that it's in a zone that depends greatly on external savings.

When in doubt about our goals, we would encourage you to take the conservative view.

But it's possible the orbits of the asteroids today show some memory of having had a planet in the asteroid belt.

We will invest 1.1 billion dollars in India, of which 150 million dollars would be for providing leasing and financial solutions to the company's customers and partners,

While evaluating his future professional opportunities, Gary has chosen to spend some time with his family,

It will change the way we work, live, play and learn,

For the first time in a very long time, I believe the external factors are slowly starting to be more positive, ... This is still a minority view, held by a minority of our customers, but we've seen early indications that the recovery could be gaining momentum.

For those that have fixed exchange-rate regimes, you will need a greater amount of foreign reserves. That's the case in Belize, it's the case in the Eastern Caribbean zone and it's also the case in Barbados. In those cases, the level of reserve coverage is one of credit weakness. Where you have a bit more flexibility in the exchange rate for instance, Jamaica you would require a smaller amount of international reserves.

We obviously are getting to be one of the largest players in the industry, so it's hard to grow faster than that number, ... But we're very, very pleased with the last quarter results of 53 percent year-over-year. That's on the upside, so I wouldn't get too optimistic when it goes above 50 percent, just like we encouraged people two years ago, when it went below 30 percent growth for us, not to get too pessimistic.

Video is emerging as the key strategic application in the service provider triple play bundle of consumer entertainment, communication and online services.

Although we can't predict the future, our orders for the first weeks of this quarter are in line with the expectations we discussed in our fourth quarter earnings call.

It's not about size, it's about your ability to make a difference. At that small size, collaboration is all the more important.

We believe our growth rate indicates that Cisco continues to gain market share against our traditional competitors in most product sectors,

There is no more important economic policy issue today than helping our nation remain the global innovation leader. To do this, our leadership must focus on an aggressive agenda to support math and science education, patent litigation reform, healthcare information technology, and research and development. We thank President Bush for his leadership and urge all members of Congress to address these issues in a comprehensive fashion to get the job done.

By providing the systems that make the Internet work, Cisco is playing a major role in helping customers thrive in the explosive Internet economy. As a result, we are growing faster than all of our key competitors and have been the fastest growing and most profitable company in the history of the computer industry.

India has the potential to be our biggest market in Asia, bigger than China, in as much as two to five years.

If it's set up in such a way that it breaks the conditionality required by the (International Monetary Fund), I think that would be a step backward.

We're profitable and have the potential to be very profitable, ... We generate cash from operations of over 1 billion per quarter. We have 19 billion in cash and equivalents in an industry that is in debt. We've gained more market share than we've ever gained in this last quarter. We've got the customer loyalty and strategy for where the industry's going, which is combining networks for service providers and enterprises. So I'm very optimistic about our future if we execute right.

If they feel like business is going to tighten in the first quarter of next year, they are probably going to be more conservative. And I think that is too early to call.

The industry growth is there, and it's there probably for the next decade. So how well we execute will determine what role we play.

We are continuing to see a number of signs that could be interpreted with the appropriate caveats as optimistic,

This will happen with or without us. Political Webmasters will soon have as much to do with elections as pollsters and media advisers.

If you want to understand what drives Cisco, look at our approach to customers. The manner in which we serve our customers defines our company values and demonstrates our priorities. Cisco is proud to be honored with this important certification that recognizes the foundation of our culture -- the importance that we place on ensuring our customers are successful with Cisco technology.

If this market transition truly evolves the way that I think it's most likely to, the worst decision you could make is not to move.

Speed is of the essence in responding to a crisis situation, and our focus is squarely on mobilizing resources to help in the relief and rebuilding efforts, while also helping customers and employees recover.

What options expensing will determine is job creation and job loss, ... This is why we are debating it so strongly and I'm proud to champion it.