John T. Chambers Quotes

I really have become very interested at working with and helping entrepreneurs at the early stages of their growth.

Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.

As an investor, I'm always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow's Twitter, Facebook, or Google?

I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

One startup I dream of funding is the one that kills the record companies.

Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

There would really be no reason to get up in the morning if Founders Fund was not willing to invest in companies that were doing important things, great businesses that very few people believe in.

We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.

I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

When my co-founder and I first had the idea for IronPort, an email security company, we triangulated a list of the 20 most relevant people in email - former CEOs, open source technologists, investors and thought leaders.

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.'

In America, innovation does not just improve our lives. It is the way we make our living.

When I came to the United States in 2004 to attend university at Stanford, I was instantly inspired by the stories and advice from startup leaders in Silicon Valley and beyond, who had endeavoured to create new opportunities and improve lives around the world.

I've always felt that children are the flowers of our future.

We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.