40 Quotes by Diane Greene

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

Every customer wants to run on all the clouds.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.