John Chambers
John Chambers
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If you can't retain the people after an acquisition, it's not worth it.
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Changes that used to occur over quarters are literally occurring over months.
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By combining broadband Internet, phone and video services over a single cable line, we are taking a major step towards implementing future integrated data, voice and video telecommunications on a mass market scale.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The first three-and-a-half months of calendar year 2001 have been extremely challenging for many of us in high-tech.
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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.
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The market's going to move with tremendous speed. If there is such a thing as a killer app, video is it.
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The Internet revolution will determine which companies survive and which get left behind, ... Increasingly, the Internet is recognized as the key driver in our global economy.
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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.
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India has the potential to be our biggest market in Asia, bigger than China, in as much as two to five years.
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India has rapidly risen to become a major force in the global economy.