I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.

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 only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

Act confident, even when you're not.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city.

You appreciate or criticize people or things you care for, which are closed to your heart. Else who has time to think about devils!!!

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

I've been thinking about forever

Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

The one thing that I really want, ... is for our second group to be an energy unit. That's what we had in our championship run, and that's what I think you are starting to see with this group.

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

I would never scream at my kids, never raise my voice. But as they often tell me, they were so well behaved that screaming was not necessary.

When a society doesn't know what to do with its young, it's in real trouble. When the young don't know what to do with society - at the very least, revolutions start there.