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Larry Ellison
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: August 17
Actor
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The Bronx
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Lawrence Joseph Ellison
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
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The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
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Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would.
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If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.
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Act confident, even when you're not.
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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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Winning is not enough. All others must lose.
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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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Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.
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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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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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The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.
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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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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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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.
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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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Our goal is simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
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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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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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Five years from now, I don't know how I'll think.
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