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I'm right, and everyone else is wrong.

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Larry Ellison
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: August 17
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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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All you can do is all you can do.
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I hate the PC, with a passion.
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If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.
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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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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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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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Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.
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Winning is not enough. All others must lose.
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We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.
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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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Act confident, even when you're not.
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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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There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.
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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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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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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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The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
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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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