John T. Chambers Quotes

India is a large market where our focus will be to grow faster than the market and add few percentage points to our market share every year.

You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.

You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a market such that you become a market share leader in it.

Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.

When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.

I'm always thinking as an outsider, and I'm always mindful of whether a company can be impactful on a global basis. Frankly, I'm paranoid about anyone anywhere who could be a competitive threat.

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

We want to be the volume number one, but also we want to have 8 percent in operating profit.

I've never had difficulty dominating any market I've been in.

Market share is key.

We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.

It's not a matter of being first, it's being there at the right time, being first in volume to market, and knowing what trends to stay away from.

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

We are out-of-the-gates strong in fiscal 2015. We grew revenue 8% in the first quarter and exceeded our QuickBooks Online subscriber and our company financial targets.