“I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I...” — Ram Shriram Quote

“I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.”

“No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.”

“I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.”

“Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.”

“I've had 20 years, 25 years of running business. I've been well trained by a number of amazing organizations and I've got a lot of implicit, subconscious pattern recognition on how to make business decisions.”

“Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's children and a place to rest one's head - all this depends on the decisions of government; all can be swept away by a government which does not heed the demands of its people, and I mean all of its people.”