Bhavish Aggarwal Quotes

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.

Our success at Cisco has been defined by how we anticipate, capture, and lead through market transitions. Over the years, I've watched iconic companies disappear - Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Wang, Digital Equipment - as they failed to anticipate where the market was heading.

The external world is changing drastically, and enterprises and products will have a short lifecycle if they don't change. So we have to react to market trends. Nothing lasts forever in today's world.

We believe in global scalability with local relevance.

All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.

Every market is in transition.

You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.

You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you.

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

The founder of Dell found ways of delivering Hewlett Packard's most profitable products for much lower prices but forgot to deliver their quality so within a few years had fallen behind again. Ideas need constant renewal. A great idea will never be perfect and will never work perfectly in all markets and all seasons.

Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value.

... whatever business you're in, it doesn't matter, it's going to commoditize over time, it's going to devalue, you've got to keep moving it to a higher value. Keep going to a higher value in whatever it is that you do and force yourself and force the organization to always do it ahead of time

If I have learned nothing else in all my years here, my biggest lesson is you have to constantly reinvent this company. That's how you get to be 103 years old.

Executives need ample flexibility to respond to the market. That means both reducing costs and increasing innovation.

In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.

Business models that are relevant today are not relevant tomorrow and were not in existence yesterday.

I believe that if you don't disrupt yourself, you will be disrupted by someone else.

I think we operate in a very dynamic marketplace, and as such, we need to constantly innovate.

Businesses that don't evolve are businesses that die.

Adaptability and constant innovation is key to the survival of any company operating in a competitive market.

I don't think of competition as much as journalists think I do. Our strategy has been very different from Uber. We are very focused on building as per the Indian dynamics.

The essence and the glory of the free market is that individual firms and businesses, competing on the market, provide an ever-changing orchestration of efficient and progressive goods and services: continually improving products and markets, advancing technology, cutting costs, and meeting changing consumer demands as swiftly and as efficiently as possible.