Cisco

“Think about what Cisco did to all the networking companies. Think about what Amazon did in the cloud. Think what Apple did in terms of ease of use. That really is what now is going to do this industry if we do it right.”

“Where 75% of your cost of networks are the support costs, not the product costs.”

“And oddly enough, customers who had problems that you helped solve the problem even if it was created by us ended up being more loyal customers and actually grew faster than the ones who didn't.”

“Once the market take off, you can't think I'll be the 10th player in this market three years later and become number one. It doesn't happen. So if we weren't one of the first movers, we partnered with one of them or acquired”

“We went from a company that had seventy million in sales when I joined, and it went to forty-eight billion. Ah, we were number one or number two in 15 of 18 product areas, number three in just three. We created 10,000 millionaires among our employees, so we sh…”

“Ah, out of the 180 acquisitions, almost all of them, it was a customer who told us we should buy them.”