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.

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.

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.

Gratitude becomes spiritual, a spiritual virtue and a spiritual emotion, when we are moved in our response by a God-centered view of the three: gift, recipient, and giver. – p. 56

The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.

Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

A Every man has a king and a fool in him and the one you talk to reacts.

There is no slavery but ignorance.