Ram Shriram Quotes

When I went into a start-up in tech, I knew I could always go back to a law firm.

That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.

Most startups flame out or just muddle along. Your chances of spotting a unicorn, pre-horn, are incalculably small. But if, knowing that, you still want to toss aside your cushy job, at least listen to corporate vets who have made the transition.

I did an internship in the Silicon Valley during the Internet boom. I couldn't imagine sitting in a cubicle the rest of my life, so I gave acting a try. I would have been happy doing theater and making nothing.

Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.

After more than 23 years working on a wide range of Microsoft products, I have decided to leave the company to seek new opportunities that build on these experiences.

Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.

I left Google after four years of working on Google Maps, search, and Google TV as a product marketing manager. I knew I wanted to do something on my own.

I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it.

I expect my next job to be outside government.

Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.

I think a lot of mothers are doing as I am: starting up their own ventures as their children grow older, and having a kind of second blooming.

The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little programmers' co-ops, and everybody was talking about starting businesses.

I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony.

Doing consulting and government relations on the hill took up a lot less time than running a record store and brought in a lot more money

I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.

Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business.

I never one time mentioned anything to any coach about retirement or joining the CIA or anything like that.

I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.

I spent 15 years at IBM, then five years at Freescale Semiconductor.

People no longer have one job for life, so it is right that younger generations adapt.