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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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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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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.
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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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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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A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that.
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I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.
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The number one objective is that people who make the investment in digitization, whether they are governments or service providers, get a reasonable return.
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I have interacted with several top leaders. Modi is among the three smartest leaders I have met.
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I had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes.
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In 2001, we were like most high-tech companies, with one or two primary products that were really important to us.
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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.
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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.
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You want to select the right applications at the right time for your industry.
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Government leaders need to ask themselves if they are positioning their country to reap the full potential of the digital economy.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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I think we have a tax policy that was designed before Microsoft even went public. I think we've got to change - we're at a huge disadvantage around the world.
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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.
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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.
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Cities, too, are embracing digitization. Barcelona has installed in-ground parking sensors and launched connected public transportation as part of its Smart City strategy.
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To create a truly digital Europe will require a foundation of high-speed, high-quality broadband, both wired and wireless.
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It's easy for me to see how a business proposition is going to play out, or who our next-generation competitors are, from taking this data point from this customer and another data point from another customer... and jump to Z.
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It would surprise you how many government and business leaders with dyslexia. Some people view it as a weakness, and maybe it is. What dyslexia forces you to do, you don't go A, B, C, D, E... to Z. I can go A, B... Z with speed.
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There's a lot to learn from President Clinton. It kills me as a strong Republican saying it, but he was the most effective president during my lifetime. And when business got out of line, he smacked them.
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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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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.
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Digital is going to have five times the impact than the information era. Just because you led the first transition as a company or country, that doesn't mean you will lead in this one.
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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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Every company, city, and country is becoming digital, navigating disruptive markets, and Cisco's role in the digital transformation has never been more important.
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Today's world requires a different leadership style - more collaboration and teamwork, including using Web 2.0 technologies. If you had told me I'd be video blogging and blogging, I would have said, 'No way.' And yet our 20-somethings in the company really pushed me to use that more.
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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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As a country, we must come together to provide the training, certifications, and jobs that our veterans have earned and deserve.
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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.
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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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