John T. Chambers Quotes

The best opportunity for return on investment is in the information revolution.

The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially.

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

Government leaders need to ask themselves if they are positioning their country to reap the full potential of the digital economy.

Obama was the first American president to see technology as an engine to improve lives and accelerate society more quickly than any government body could.

There will be no cost drag from digital by 2020.

The digital economy is impacting us in a big way.

Digital companies can reach new customers immediately and at virtually zero marginal cost. They can compete in new sectors by collaborating with peers and competitors. They can massively improve quality and productivity by converging technologies and sources of data.

The investments and costs you have to put into digitalising means there will be an incentive for companies to merge.

Our economy, for a long while, has been transitioning from one reliant on industrial strength to one based on digital information. The next step in this transition is a digital economy shaped by connectivity.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand.

Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that's now inferior.

... one of the things that will distinguish businesses into this next decade is ... how they use information.... I think it'll change culture, it'll change everything that you do. And I believe it'll differentiate the winners and the losers.

We should leave this archaic, developing world mentality behind. If you want to be a developed country, you have to learn to cope with the media.

We’ve got to learn to govern in Internet time.

Trade ministers lag behind technology or the development of technology.

Today, in 2011, I'm giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration's improbable MVP in the technology realm.

In France, President Francois Hollande is leveraging the next wave of the Internet to jumpstart economic reforms and create jobs for hundreds of thousands of citizens. A historically socialist government, France has had the courage to quickly implement unique partnerships with the business community to drive entrepreneurial spirit and thinking.

The problem in D.C. is that everything is on paper, and it's theoretical.