<p>“I believe and trust that Jack Dorsey is there on a temporary basis”<br>— <strong>Alwaleed bin Talal, Saudi prince</strong> and one of Twitter’s earlier investors, believes the social messenger’s interim chief executive should not get the job permanently because of his other job commitments<br><br>“It’s not enough just to set goals to hire more women and minorities for the sake of diversity. You have to build the whole ecosystem”<br>— <strong>Brian Krzanich, CEO, Intel, </strong>after the announcement of the creation of Intel Ventures’ $125 million venture capital fund to fund companies led by women and under-represented minorities</p><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3" style="width: 200px;"><tbody><tr><td><img alt="" src="http://bw-image.s3.amazonaws.com/John-Chambers-CEO-Cisco-Systems_BLOOMBERG-300.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 133px; float: right; margin: 0px;"></td></tr><tr><td>John Chambers, CEO, Cisco</td></tr></tbody></table><p>“40 per cent of businesses in this room, unfortunately, will not exist in a meaningful way in 10 years. If I’m not making you sweat, I should be. It will become a digital world that will change our life at the pace of a technology company change”<br>— <strong>John Chambers, CEO, Cisco</strong>, in his last keynote speech to 25,000 attendees<br><br>“The new devices will be ‘super-thin, super-flexible’, so readers will be able to roll them up and put them in their jacket pocket”<br>— <strong>Mathias Doepfner, CEO of Axel Springer SE</strong>, on how the news of the future will be consumed on electronic paper and not on mobile phones or tablets<br><br>“We have a wearable technology that’s coming out next year with Michael Kors that could really turbocharge the entire industry”<br>— <strong>Kosta Kartsotis, CEO, Fossil,</strong> hoping to capitalise on the buzz for wearable technology being ushered in by the Apple Watch and other new gadgets.<br><br>“If you take care of your employees they will take care of your business. That is a philosophy that has served us well for more than four decades, and is the foundation of everything we do at Virgin”<br>— <strong>Richard Branson, CEO, Virgin Group,</strong> in a blog post, after the UK-based group announced that it will now offer staff up to a year’s parental leave on full pay<br><br>“As far as succession goes, I am still in command and I am getting all professional chief executives as I do not want a family member to be chief executive of the company”<br>— <strong>Anil Agarwal, CEO, Vedanta Group</strong>, soon after he announced the merger of oil explorer Cairn India with Vedanta. He wants to separate ownership and management, appointing professional managers rather than kin to top posts<br><br>(This story was published in BW | Businessworld Issue Dated 13-07-2015)</p>