Ruth Porat Quotes

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

I would come to L.A. for a job, but I love New York.

I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.

There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do.

And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today.

When I joined Google, it was a 1,500-person company, which I thought was huge, since I don't think of myself as a corporate person.

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.

Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.

I'd love a job at Facebook.

I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

Google has been amazing at acqui-hiring, buying small companies for the engineers. I think in the competitive market of Silicon Valley, it's really a good way to do it. Big acquisitions often don't work out.

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.

It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.

I was asked a question: 'Would I want to play for Madrid?' It's like anyone asked if they want to change jobs and move to a bigger company.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

I did live in New York. Yeah, I moved to L.A. for 'Community.' And I gave up my apartment in New York.

There are lots of people in the Silicon Valley who are interested in working at a fast-moving, dynamic company like Google. Not just my family members.

My smartest move was joining Google. It wasn't obvious at the time that it would be a good decision. A lot of people, many of my friends, advised me against it.

My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with overtime at the automobile plant.

When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.

It is very exciting to have the opportunity to return to the East Coast and join the Liberty family.

I will move to Dera, Beas, post-transitioning my executive responsibilities at Fortis.

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.