John T. Chambers Quotes

Everybody at Axa has understood that digital is there, that digital changes our business, and also that digital can create an opportunity.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

The speed at which technology evolves affects everyone; we repeatedly hear that constant innovation is overwhelming for consumers, who struggle to keep pace.

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

The world is facing a new networked, digital lifestyle, and we will ensure that Canon remains ahead of the game.

The digital explosion has been so explosive.

It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape.

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into our overall economy and have a transformative effect on major sectors that we don't yet foresee.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. This revolution has produced the most powerful and diverse spur to innovation of any in modern times.

Government is too slow to keep up with the digital environment.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

Government leaders need to ask themselves if they are positioning their country to reap the full potential of the digital economy.

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.

The Internet isn't just itself a revolution - it sometimes starts them, too.

All countries will eventually need to rebuild their growth models around digital technologies and the human capital that supports their deployment and expansion.