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Larry Ellison
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: August 17
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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.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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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.
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I think about the business all the time. Well I shouldn't say all the time. I don't think about it when I am wakeboarding. But even when I am on vacation, or on my boat I am on email everyday. I am always prowling around the internet looking at what our competitors are doing.
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
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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.
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Most companies don't want their data co-mingled with other customers. Small companies will tolerate it.
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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.
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If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.
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I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale.
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I think you might see us growing much deeper into banking. You might see us acquiring companies in the banking area. You might see us acquiring companies in the retail area. I think you might see us acquiring companies in the telecommunications. I think you will see us getting stronger in business intelligence.
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Our goal is simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
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The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
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... 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.
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You cannot innovate by copying.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.
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