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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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Larry Ellison
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: August 17
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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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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.
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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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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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The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.
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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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Five years from now, I don't know how I'll think.
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If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke.
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I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don't know what I'll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around ... anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset.
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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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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.
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I have had all the disadvantages required for success.
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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.
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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.
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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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Most companies don't want their data co-mingled with other customers. Small companies will tolerate it.
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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.
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Winning is not enough. All others must lose.
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All you can do is all you can do.
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I'm right, and everyone else is wrong.
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