Ravi Subramanian Quotes

I've been around the bend in corporations.

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.

I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

I once dated someone who worked at McDonald's. She came up and asked if I wanted a Big Mac.

Today's business climate is not for me.

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years.

When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business.

I find the business world hard.

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Office life is very, very strange. It's like no other way of living. You have an intimacy with people who you work with in the office, yet if you meet them on the streets, you both look the other way because you're embarrassed.

These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.

In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.

I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.

America is incredibly professional and corporate.

The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.

I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.

People always say it is carefree leaving officialdom, but actually they do want to keep the position.

'Office Space' I loved doing.