Larry Ellison
So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.Collection: Inspirational
Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as software, it doesn't cost us twice as much to build that software. So the more customers you have, the more scale you have. The larger you are, the more profitable you are.Collection: Inspirational
I'm right, and everyone else is wrong.Collection: Larry
Taking care of your employees is extremely important, and very, very visible.Collection: Important
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.Collection: Inspirational
If your cash is about to run out, you have to cut your cash flow. CEOs have to make those decisions and live with them however painful they may be. You have to act and act now; and act in the best interest of the company as a whole, even if it means that some people in the company who are your best friends have to work somewhere else.Collection: Inspirational
Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Inspirational
If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it - a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all - you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source.Collection: Fighting
When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.Collection: Inspirational
I believe people have to follow their dreams-I did.Collection: Inspirational
Our goal is simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.Collection: Inspirational
Five years from now, I don't know how I'll think.Collection: Inspirational
I am also involved with all the acquisitions and overall strategy. Now it's true, I don't run operations. But I've never really run operations. I've never had the endurance to run sales. The whole idea of selling to the customer just isn't my personality. I'm an engineer, tell me why something isn't working or is and I am curious.Collection: Inspirational
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.Collection: Inspirational
Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.Collection: Data
When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure, I wanted to make a living. I certainly never expected to become rich, certainly not this rich. I mean, rich does not even describe this. This is surreal. And it has nothing to do with money. I mean, you buy clothes with money, and cars. But I really wanted to work with people I enjoyed working with, who I admired and liked.Collection: Inspirational
I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it?Collection: Talking
I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning.Collection: Inspirational