A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that.

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.

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.

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.

If every company becomes a technology company, business models and transitions are going to occur. From a CEO's perspective, this is going to be the biggest technology transition of all times.

Things will happen. You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse. React Positively. Live Happily.

Most people do not invest their time because they do not see need to do that.

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley.

I'm rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it's not embraced. That's stupid. And I don't work with stupid people.

You can bluff the good players, but not the bad players. Against the bad players, you have to have a hand.