Larry Ellison Quotes

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'.

Think of it as you want it, not as it is!

Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.

I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.

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

If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.

The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.

We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.

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

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

I hate the PC, with a passion.

We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.

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.

I'm addicted to winning. The more you win, the more you want to win.

Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.

Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.

If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.

When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.

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

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 I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke.

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

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

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

I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.

Act confident, even when you're not.

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.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.

Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.

You have to act and act now.

There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years.

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.

They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.

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.

I have hobbies. I do all sorts of ridiculous things,

I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning.

Most companies don't want their data co-mingled with other customers. Small companies will tolerate it.

Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.

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.

Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid.

Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

You can't spend as much money as I have, even if you try. I've been trying.

Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about.

Five years from now, I don't know how I'll think.

Winning is not enough. All others must lose.

Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.

You cannot innovate by copying.

All you can do is all you can do.

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.

I'm right, and everyone else is wrong.

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

We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.