Building Quote by Aaron Levie

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

— Brian Behlendorf

Microsoft wasn't born as an enterprise company. We have always been growing with end users in mind.

— Jean-Philippe Courtois

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it…

— Reed Hastings

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult

— Marc Andreessen

We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

— Larry Ellison

Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.

— Aaron Levie

We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.

— Larry Ellison

Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise software.

— Aaron Levie

From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but…

— Mark Pincus

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

— Marc Andreessen

The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer…

— Aaron Levie

Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame…

— Tim Bray