Larry Ellison Quotes
302 Larry Ellison Quotes (Oracle, Lawrence Joseph Ellison)
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In marketing simple messages always win.
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It never ceases to amaze me how the product name can be the difference between success and failure in the technology industry.
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In a great company everybody sells – not just the salespeople.
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When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.
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Life is the enlightened pursuit of happiness, not the unenlightened pursuit of as much money as you can accumulate.
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We work because work is an act of creation. We identify with it… I look at the company and I think, ‘This is me.’
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What motivated me was the desire to control my environment…
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Built it once and sell it over and over again.
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The bigger the apparent risk, the fewer people will try to go there.
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Being first to finish is what it’s all about.
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When you find errors in conventional wisdom – when everyone says A and A is not true – that is when you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living.
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I'm addicted to winning. The more you win, the more you want to win
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A lot of what keeps me going and keeps my drive is I'm curious as to how far I can go...
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Everyone who works hard, maybe a little cleverly, has the opportunity to make almost anything possible.
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You have to find places to take advantage, and the way to have the advantage is to find flaws in the conventional strategy.
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My original goal was to build a company doing about ten million dollars of revenue and employing about fifty people. What motivated me was the desire to control my environment so I wouldn’t have to do things I didn’t want to do or spend time with people I didn’t enjoy working with.
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[In September 1998] Oracle is a $4.8 billion market cap company today because we've always gone against convention.
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When we hit the wall, we hit it very, very hard.
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[To Adda Quinn his first wife.] If you stay with me, I will become a millionaire.
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Steve [Jobs] created the only lifestyle brand in the tech industry. There are cars people are proud to have – Porsche, Ferrari, Prius – because what I drive says something about me. People feel the same way about an Apple product.
[On someone suggesting that Gates was brilliant.] Bill Gates, brilliant? Really?… I think Bill is a very bright guy, but I don’t think his strength is in his intellect at all. It’s in his relentlessness.
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We’d sell anything anyone wanted to buy.
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[On the importance of getting marketshare early.] How much does it cost Pepsi to get one half of one percent of the market from Coke once the market has been established? It’s very expensive.
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[On his company’s early approach method to customers.] Here’s our software. Use it. I dare you.
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In our business, with the development of any new technology, there’s tremendous uncertainty.
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I pissed a lot of people off… Still do.
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The only things that are important in our lives are love and work – not necessarily in that order, but they’re both important.
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People I care about, people I love, are essential for my sanity to make it through every day.
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Work and love, conspire to deliver some kind of happiness.
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[In July 1999] If you look at Apple how much difference can one person make?… I think one person can make a tremendous difference.
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[In July 1999] Apple with Steve Jobs [Finger going up a graph.] Apple without Steve Jobs [Finger going down a graph.]
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Even if you’re ready to sell your soul, you usually find that nobody’s buying.
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When we say there’s a training problem, it’s usually because a product is too difficult to use. If you can use Yahoo! Or Amazon without any training, you should be able to use most business software with little or no training. Unfortunately, our engineers usually stop short of making our products as easy to use as possible.
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Don’t tell us how you’ve been running your business for the last twenty years. Instead, let’s try to figure out how you want to run your business for the next twenty years.
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I never had the discipline to do things I didn’t like.
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I was good at logic.
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I only ever picked the high-risk approach when I thought that it would increase our chance of winning and our share of reward.
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Whenever you travel an untraveled path there’s risk.
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Oracle rode the Internet wave because our database powered virtually every major Web site on the Net.
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[On doing the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in 1998.] I wasn’t ‘traumatized’ by the race, but I sure didn’t enjoy it. I’d have to be an idiot to spend any more of my Christmas holidays throwing up on a sailboat.
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[On selling one of his first sailing boats.] I finally had to accept that eating came before sailing in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
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