Ram Shriram Quotes

If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

Throughout my career, I've been someone who's led... and solved problems we had.

My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem-solving. She can solve any problem.

Leaders have to see past problems to solutions, and my mother excelled at just that.

Elon Musk is a very, very smart man, but there are a lot of smart people in this world, and you've got to execute. He's got execution problems.

If you ever have a question or a problem, if you approach Triple H, he might say the most-obvious thing, but it was the last thing you were thinking. As soon as he says it, you're thinking, 'Oh my, why didn't I think of that?' He's very smart, and we're very lucky to have him at our disposal in NXT.

I do believe I have certain strengths as a female CEO, such as having another level of awareness through emotional intelligence.

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

I'm very visionary, very big picture.

Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.

My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?

The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.