John T. Chambers Quotes

We continue to see acquisitions as an opportunity area for us. It's one of the tools that we use to grow.

I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

Votorantim is attentive to opportunities that arise in both domestic and international markets to expand its businesses.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

I do think that in order for a company to be interesting to the investment community, there needs to be a plan; there needs to be a bigger retail footprint. There needs to be this idea - DNA, lifestyle, words I hate.

With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.

For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.

Google has been amazing at acqui-hiring, buying small companies for the engineers. I think in the competitive market of Silicon Valley, it's really a good way to do it. Big acquisitions often don't work out.

We get talent and scale from mergers.

We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size.

Market expansion is not an opportunity. It is a necessity.

I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake

Buying a company that is number one in its business is hard to do. When something is for sale, it's often not a leader.

Growth is always essential. Running any tech company, you want to make sure you're growing. Putting in place all of the right structure to be able to ensure growth.

We will see growth in the U.S., and we will selectively acquire in the U.S., but we prefer to use our global opportunity.

As long as our quality and company continue to get better, by nature, we will get bigger.

In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire.

As Looker got larger, the talented people we hired started to see things that we couldn't. And what had looked like a company the three of us could run out of our houses for a few hours a day became something bigger. Much bigger.

The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster.

You need to invest in areas where you can be the market leader because then you get a disproportionate share of the economics when you are.

Benchmark has threatened to block investments that could bolster Uber's competitive position in global markets by bargaining over board seats and its own control.