John T. Chambers Quotes

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

For more than three months, I had been president and primary owner of Spellman Investigations, and I can say with complete certainty that I had more power in this office as an underling. My title, it seemed, was purely decorative. I was captain of an unfashionable and sinking ship.

Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.

I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.

Last guys don't finish nice.

Great companies have been reduced by hiring executives that don't work out.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.

Leading from behind doesn't work.

To all who leaned upon Mr. Gladstone, who trusted him, and hoped for something from him—chips, nothing but chips—hard, dry, unnourishing, indigestible chips.

Old mismanagement is no excuse for the continuance of it.

For his failures, Rumsfeld must go!

I don't know what the hell you're doing here telling us how to discharge our business. You were the worst Secretary of HEW the country ever had.

I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks.

It sucks when you do poorly at your job.

Clubs don't change managers unless there is something wrong.

I don't have a good thing to say about Eric Bischoff or anything he ever did. Talk about the Midas touch, he was the opposite.

When you don't win anything, at the end of the day, you cannot say it is a good season.

I was usually asked to do less than I was capable of by directors who had lost control of their movie.

I think President Obama is weak, bored with the office, and an incompetent leader.

Leader Reid is doing a horrendous job.

I will say that Surface has been a big disappointment for us and for Microsoft. Both of our expectations from the product were much greater than what came to be and not only that. We invested enormous amount into research and development and spent a lot of time and energy into it.

Having no choice doesn't result in innovation and performance improvement.