Top 7 quotes on life by Cisco founder Sandy Lerner

What is good for you is not necessarily good for the company, and vice versa.

I always thought that if someone invested in your business, that meant he or she believed in it.

I've never really seen other people spend other people's money wisely.

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.

Cisco never had a red quarter. Never. Took us three years to get funding, and in those three years, we were never in the red, and that was because we had two products to sell.

At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.