Diane Greene Quotes

We believe that cloud will be based on significant open-source components that are offered as services. People don't want to be locked into a single provider.

- Diane Greene

If you know where you are going, you have this sixth sense about if everything you do along the way is lined up with that.

- Diane Greene

Google went in a consumer direction, and VMware was system infrastructure. But there are a lot of parallels and similarities.

- Diane Greene

When we were small, the idea of VMware wasn't well defined, and convincing people to join was difficult. Each person we hired at that time was a big deal.

- Diane Greene

To sail successfully, you need to observe with great care. You need to identify what the wind and the water are telling you and then find a way to execute, to reach whatever goal you've set, be that simply making it home or winning a race.

- Diane Greene

Now we're in an environment where women are increasingly having a huge impact and adding a lot of value to our industry. And women are celebrated if they raise their hand and say, 'Hey, you're missing my value. You're not recognizing what I'm doing.'

- Diane Greene

This whole cloud phenomenon is gaining steam pretty rapidly, and it's really become a strategic imperative for people.

- Diane Greene

Paul Otellini, the former CEO of Intel, I worked with while I was still with VMware. I knew Ram Shriram through the tech industry.

- Diane Greene

At VMware, the engineers worked very closely with our customers, closely with the field, and it was exciting for everyone. So, one of things I did here at Google when I arrived was to combine sales, marketing, engineering, and product.

- Diane Greene

Google is committed to open source and open APIs, and part of that is creating a partner-friendly place.

- Diane Greene

I have pretty set rules that I go home for dinner every night unless I am traveling.

- Diane Greene

I'm pretty transparent and clear about things. The things I do and the way I act are no different than I would expect of others. Mostly it's about being very clear about what we are trying to do and communicating a lot and showing absolute consistency and integrity about what I say and do.

- Diane Greene

If you had a hobby, family, or wanted to do things besides work - you should join VMware. We didn't have nearly as long hours as Google given our customers worked normal business hours.

- Diane Greene

I've never been in the enterprise where your customers are your partners. It was always, you had customers, and you had partners.

- Diane Greene

I have a lot of help to do chores so I can be with my family, and I never have any help over the weekends.

- Diane Greene

When you race a sailboat, the selection of your crew is just completely paramount. It's impossible to be an effective skipper if you don't have the right people working harmoniously in the right roles.

- Diane Greene

If I could inexpensively pick up a killer sales force without a lot of the other things that I don't necessarily need, yeah, I'd be all there.

- Diane Greene

Everything is changing now that we are in the cloud in terms of sharing our data, understanding our data using new techniques like machine learning.

- Diane Greene

Every customer wants to run on all the clouds.

- Diane Greene

If I had to have my druthers - the best technology, the best cloud... if I had to choose between that and building out a sales force and building out customer support... I would pick the latter.

- Diane Greene

Almost every customer that I talk to is talking about how they're using APIs, and what a step function they are for their business.

- Diane Greene

More than anything, I think my connection to the sea has really helped me develop my independence and a sense of the importance and value of my own vision.

- Diane Greene

When I first started VMware, I was very shy and self-conscious about speaking. I grew out of this by giving talks each week in front of the whole company; gradually, as we scaled, I had talked to more and more people, and this is how I conquered my fear of talking to people.

- Diane Greene

There's a lot that machine learning can't do that humans can do very, very well.

- Diane Greene

Building a company is so much like racing a sailboat.

- Diane Greene

It's a good thing to remember that hiring will get easier as you scale - but you should also never drop your standards.

- Diane Greene

One of the happiest times of my life, I lived in a tent on a porch on Hawaii.

- Diane Greene

Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.

- Diane Greene

At VMware, we did the virtualization, which is now used extensively across the cloud. Virtualization layers - and containers - are what facilitated the cloud originally.

- Diane Greene

I'm super partner-oriented. That's how I built VMware.

- Diane Greene

I just do what I want to do. I look at what's interesting to me.

- Diane Greene