John T. Chambers Quotes

I always try and watch how business people think. I like to read a lot about business people. I'm not going to say I've got a great business mind, but I enjoy learning from the world of business.

I think the thing about business is that it's not completely separate to life. You're selling to people so it's all about life skills - and common sense.

A lot of people who own a business aren't entrepreneurial at all.

The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.

My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem-solving. She can solve any problem.

I have an MBA, but my Ph.D. is in people. Everything I do is about relationships.

I have to think my success in the VC business was due in no small part to seeing Larry Ellison in action back in the day.

I've learned a lot about business from snowboarding: how companies run, how the game works.

I'm not a business person.

I'm a business person.

I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I think what I understand more than that is people... Ultimately, I think businesses fail and people fail because they don't have their act together.

My grandmother started as a ticket-taker and basically became the CFO of my dad's company. It was a very important first impression for me - I've always looked on the business with more eyes than just as a wrestler.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do.

I have always been a business person.

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

From the time that I was a child, I loved interacting with people. I would go around door-to-door and sell candies and gift-wrapping paper, and it was a great way to interact with people and communicate with people.

I always told people in the private sector, 'You can be the smartest person in the world, you can have the very best ideas, but if you can't sell them and you can't get other people to work with you, you're not going to succeed.'

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.

I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs.

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

Great businessmen are creators.

An entrepreneurial mind is always looking for new opportunities.

I'm a businesswoman.