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Children live what they learn.
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Life is too short not to live in peace.
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Life Is
Life Is Too Short
Too Short
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Every customer wants to run on all the clouds.
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Clouds
Customer
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Divorce can leave children feeling like defectors.
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Children
Divorce
Feelings
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Building a company is so much like racing a sailboat.
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Racing
Sailboat
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One of the happiest times of my life, I lived in a tent on a porch on Hawaii.
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Hawaii
Porch
Happiest
Tent
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Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.
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Adventure
Curious
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To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.
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Differences
Good Marriage
Great Marriage
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Creating traditions in the blended family promote unity and a sense of belonging.
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Creating
Tradition
Unity
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I have pretty set rules that I go home for dinner every night unless I am traveling.
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Every Night
Go Home
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Google is committed to open source and open APIs, and part of that is creating a partner-friendly place.
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Committed
Creating
Google
Open Source
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I have a lot of help to do chores so I can be with my family, and I never have any help over the weekends.
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Chores
Weekends
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This whole cloud phenomenon is gaining steam pretty rapidly, and it's really become a strategic imperative for people.
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Phenomenon
Steam
Strategic
Cloud
Gaining
Imperative
Rapidly
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It's a good thing to remember that hiring will get easier as you scale - but you should also never drop your standards.
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Easier
Hiring
Standards
Good Your Remember
Scale
Drop
Good Thing
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If you know where you are going, you have this sixth sense about if everything you do along the way is lined up with that.
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Sixth Sense
Sixth
Way Know Everything
Lined
Sense
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Google went in a consumer direction, and VMware was system infrastructure. But there are a lot of parallels and similarities.
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Infrastructure
Parallels
Consumer
Similarities
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I've never been in the enterprise where your customers are your partners. It was always, you had customers, and you had partners.
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Partners
Always Your Never
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Paul Otellini, the former CEO of Intel, I worked with while I was still with VMware. I knew Ram Shriram through the tech industry.
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Ceo
Former
Intel
Paul
Ram
Tech
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Almost every customer that I talk to is talking about how they're using APIs, and what a step function they are for their business.
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Business
Function
Talking
Talk
Almost
Customer
Step
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If I could inexpensively pick up a killer sales force without a lot of the other things that I don't necessarily need, yeah, I'd be all there.
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If I Could
Sales
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Everything is changing now that we are in the cloud in terms of sharing our data, understanding our data using new techniques like machine learning.
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Data
Cloud
Sharing
Techniques
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When we were small, the idea of VMware wasn't well defined, and convincing people to join was difficult. Each person we hired at that time was a big deal.
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Big Deal
Convincing
Defined
Time People Difficult
Time Difficult People
Hired
Join
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More than anything, I think my connection to the sea has really helped me develop my independence and a sense of the importance and value of my own vision.
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Independence
Importance
Sea
More Than Anything
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We believe that cloud will be based on significant open-source components that are offered as services. People don't want to be locked into a single provider.
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Components
Locked
Significant
Believe People Will
Cloud
Offered
Provider
Services
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At VMware, we did the virtualization, which is now used extensively across the cloud. Virtualization layers - and containers - are what facilitated the cloud originally.
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Layers
Cloud
Originally
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Divorce is a journey that the children involved do not ask to take. They are forced along for a ride where the results are dictated by the road their parents decide to travel.
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Journey
Children
Divorce
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If you had a hobby, family, or wanted to do things besides work - you should join VMware. We didn't have nearly as long hours as Google given our customers worked normal business hours.
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Customers
Long Hours
Normal
Family Work Business
Besides
Nearly
Join
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If I had to have my druthers - the best technology, the best cloud... if I had to choose between that and building out a sales force and building out customer support... I would pick the latter.
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Latter
Cloud
Customer
Pick
Sales
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Divorce is war and unfortunately, some parents live in constant entanglements with their ex-spouses and they shift aside the issues that post-divorce can leave on the shoulders of their children.
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War
Children
Divorce
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Part of knowing ourselves is also being able to accept who we are and to value ourselves regardless of our flaws. Accepting who we are allows us to value our worth without conditions or reservations.
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Able
Knowing
Who We Are
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When you race a sailboat, the selection of your crew is just completely paramount. It's impossible to be an effective skipper if you don't have the right people working harmoniously in the right roles.
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Crew
Paramount
Sailboat
Selection
Effective
Harmoniously
Right People
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At VMware, the engineers worked very closely with our customers, closely with the field, and it was exciting for everyone. So, one of things I did here at Google when I arrived was to combine sales, marketing, engineering, and product.
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Customers
Engineering
Marketing
Closely
Combine
Product
Sales
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To sail successfully, you need to observe with great care. You need to identify what the wind and the water are telling you and then find a way to execute, to reach whatever goal you've set, be that simply making it home or winning a race.
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Race
Sail
Water
Wind
Winning
Simply
Set
Execute
Identify
Observe
Reach
Successfully
Telling
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Now we're in an environment where women are increasingly having a huge impact and adding a lot of value to our industry. And women are celebrated if they raise their hand and say, 'Hey, you're missing my value. You're not recognizing what I'm doing.'
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Hey
Missing
Recognizing
Adding
Celebrated
Huge Impact
Increasingly
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When I first started VMware, I was very shy and self-conscious about speaking. I grew out of this by giving talks each week in front of the whole company; gradually, as we scaled, I had talked to more and more people, and this is how I conquered my fear of talking to people.
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Self Conscious
Conquered
Each Week
Gradually
More And More
Talked
Talks
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I'm pretty transparent and clear about things. The things I do and the way I act are no different than I would expect of others. Mostly it's about being very clear about what we are trying to do and communicating a lot and showing absolute consistency and integrity about what I say and do.
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Consistency
Transparent
Absolute
Showing
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