Quotes from Larry Ellison

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.

... 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.

I'm addicted to winning. The more you win, the more you want to win.

The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.

We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.

What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now because we've added skateboarding... We're modernizing the sport.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.

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.

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.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.

The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.

We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

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.

We'll continue to expand our footprint... Oracle's Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface and an integrated social network that makes our enterprise applications as easy-to-use and familiar as Facebook, while enabling better collaboration and teamwork among your employees and your customers.

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.

I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.

Act confident, even when you're not.

Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.