Larry Ellison Quotes
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.
Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.
The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.
When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don't know what you are going to do.
Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.
When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.
To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.
The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.
... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.
If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.
We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.
In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.
What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.
Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.
Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.
When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living.
We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.
Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would.
If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.
