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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.
Larry Ellison
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Larry Ellison
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: August 17
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Lawrence Joseph Ellison
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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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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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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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Taking care of your employees is extremely important, and very, very visible.
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