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The Internet economy continues to create unprecedented growth opportunities for people, companies and countries on a global basis.

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If this market transition truly evolves the way that I think it's most likely to, the worst decision you could make is not to move.

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This marks the eighth consecutive quarter of year-over-year top-line growth for Cisco.

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The industry growth is there, and it's there probably for the next decade. So how well we execute will determine what role we play.

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Speed is of the essence in responding to a crisis situation, and our focus is squarely on mobilizing resources to help in the relief and rebuilding efforts, while also helping customers and employees recover.

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For those that have fixed exchange-rate regimes, you will need a greater amount of foreign reserves. That's the case in Belize, it's the case in the Eastern Caribbean zone and it's also the case in Barbados. In those cases, the level of reserve coverage is one of credit weakness. Where you have a bit more flexibility in the exchange rate for instance, Jamaica you would require a smaller amount of international reserves.

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If you can't retain the people after an acquisition, it's not worth it.

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We're profitable and have the potential to be very profitable, ... We generate cash from operations of over 1 billion per quarter. We have 19 billion in cash and equivalents in an industry that is in debt. We've gained more market share than we've ever gained in this last quarter. We've got the customer loyalty and strategy for where the industry's going, which is combining networks for service providers and enterprises. So I'm very optimistic about our future if we execute right.

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If it's set up in such a way that it breaks the conditionality required by the (International Monetary Fund), I think that would be a step backward.

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We thought this downturn would last for two quarters, ... Now we are saying that it will last for at least - at least three quarters.

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We are very happy to be reporting that our pro-forma earnings passed the 1 billion mark for the first time.

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By combining broadband Internet, phone and video services over a single cable line, we are taking a major step towards implementing future integrated data, voice and video telecommunications on a mass market scale.

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While there were a number of highlights, it was probably the U.S. that topped the highlight list with strong order growth of approximately 20 percent year over year. This is better order growth than we've experienced in the last six quarters in the U.S..

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For the first time in a very long time, I believe the external factors are slowly starting to be more positive, ... This is still a minority view, held by a minority of our customers, but we've seen early indications that the recovery could be gaining momentum.

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It partly depends on the currency regimes in place in the country.

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where, instead of my hair falling out, I actually grew some hair.

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This proves our strategy is working in terms of the convergence of voice, video and data.

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In the next two to three years there will probably be only three to five players in this area. The chances to gain or lose market share are exciting.

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Through the wisdom of its government leaders and the entrepreneurship of its private sector, India has rapidly risen to become a major force in the global economy, ... Cisco believes that the Internet, and related technologies, will be a key enabler for India to achieve its goal of becoming a developed nation.

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What options expensing will determine is job creation and job loss, ... This is why we are debating it so strongly and I'm proud to champion it.

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We obviously are getting to be one of the largest players in the industry, so it's hard to grow faster than that number, ... But we're very, very pleased with the last quarter results of 53 percent year-over-year. That's on the upside, so I wouldn't get too optimistic when it goes above 50 percent, just like we encouraged people two years ago, when it went below 30 percent growth for us, not to get too pessimistic.

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There's room for another planet between Mars and Jupiter. Given that planets formed everywhere else, why couldn't another planet have formed there

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I would say this for Montserrat one of its credit weaknesses is that it's in a zone that depends greatly on external savings.

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There is no more important economic policy issue today than helping our nation remain the global innovation leader. To do this, our leadership must focus on an aggressive agenda to support math and science education, patent litigation reform, healthcare information technology, and research and development. We thank President Bush for his leadership and urge all members of Congress to address these issues in a comprehensive fashion to get the job done.

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If you want to understand what drives Cisco, look at our approach to customers. The manner in which we serve our customers defines our company values and demonstrates our priorities. Cisco is proud to be honored with this important certification that recognizes the foundation of our culture -- the importance that we place on ensuring our customers are successful with Cisco technology.

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