John T. Chambers Quotes

When I hear bad news I look at it as another leadership test that will determine how successful Go Daddy will become. So I no longer dread it. Instead, I enjoy the game of finding the very best way to deal with it, and take great satisfaction in having a hand in resolving the issues that come my way.

You will find that every successful entrepreneur has suffered many setbacks. These entrepreneurs just forget to mention these when they are doing interviews with the 'Wall Street Journal' or Bloomberg TV.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

I have had a lot of setbacks that I have learned from.

I truly believe that you can't be a successful business unless there are hiccups. That American mentality of picking yourself up, brushing your shoulders off, and then really going for it makes you 100 times stronger and smarter.

There's always going to be setbacks.

The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination and persistence.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

In business, you take a swing and you hope that you hit a home run, but sometimes you strike out. Strikeouts and failures are important. Being down, getting punched in the gut every once in a while by life and coming back up, that's accomplishment.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

If you’re going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges.

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn’t work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it’s not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing “this isn’t going to work.” And it does!

Choose a challenge instead of competence

You can tell a lot about a person not just by their successes, but by how they deal with their setbacks

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible to do and to take it on.

Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

Anyone can lead when the plan is working. The best lead when the plan falls apart.

An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.