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.

— Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison Quotes

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

— Larry Ellison

I have run engineering since day one at Oracle, and I still run engineering. I hold meetings every week with the database team, the middle ware team, the applications team. I run engineering and I will do that until the board throws me out of there.

— Larry Ellison

It’s my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.

— Larry Ellison

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.

— Larry Ellison

I think after a certain amount, I’m going to give almost everything I have to charity. What else can you do with it? You can’t spend it, even if you try. I’ve been trying.

— Larry Ellison

In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make.

— Larry Ellison

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.

— Larry Ellison

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Sure, there’s the talent, but there also has to be the will. Give me human will and the intense desire to win and it will trump talent every day of the week.

— Larry Ellison

The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion.

— Larry Ellison

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

— Larry Ellison

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

— Larry Ellison

When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, Convert this to Android format.

— Larry Ellison

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

— Larry Ellison

I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.

— Larry Ellison

I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, ‘We’re going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.’ Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.

— Larry Ellison

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

— Larry Ellison

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

— Larry Ellison

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

— Larry Ellison

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

— Larry Ellison

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

— Larry Ellison
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