John T. Chambers Quotes

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'

I enjoy business, being an entrepreneur on every level. I really enjoy it.

We all have an entrepreneur in us; it's just whether we choose the tradeoffs to become one.

I'm a rock star at the WeWorks and tech centers of New York.

If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.

Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition.

There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.

From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.

Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

It's almost a cliche that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don't go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money; they get back to work building another company or at least investing in other people's companies.