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So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.
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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Lawrence Joseph Larry Ellison
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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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You realize that life is short and fragile and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.
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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.
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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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We saw — we conducted the experiment. I mean, it’s been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we’re gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better
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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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If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke.
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I have had all the disadvantages required for success.
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Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.
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The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
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Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
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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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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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The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.
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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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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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Act confident, even when you're not.
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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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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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