Diane Greene

Every customer wants to run on all the clouds.

— Diane Greene

To sail successfully, you need to observe with great care. You need to identify what the wind and the water are telling…

— Diane Greene

At VMware, the engineers worked very closely with our customers, closely with the field, and it was exciting for everyone. So, one…

— Diane Greene

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

— Diane Greene

I have a lot of help to do chores so I can be with my family, and I never have any help…

— Diane Greene

Part of knowing ourselves is also being able to accept who we are and to value ourselves regardless of our flaws. Accepting…

— 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.…

— Diane Greene

I only use a Chromebook now. I never thought I could do that, but I love it.

— Diane Greene

To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.

— Diane Greene

Building a company is so much like racing a sailboat.

— 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…

— Diane Greene

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

— Diane Greene

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

— Diane Greene

If I had to have my druthers - the best technology, the best cloud... if I had to choose between that and…

— 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…

— Diane Greene

Divorce is a journey that the children involved do not ask to take. They are forced along for a ride where the…

— 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…

— Diane Greene

Divorce is war and unfortunately, some parents live in constant entanglements with their ex-spouses and they shift aside the issues that post-divorce…

— Diane Greene

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

— 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,…

— Diane Greene

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

— Diane Greene

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

— Diane Greene

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

— 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…

— Diane Greene

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

— Diane Greene