Larry Ellison

Act confident, even when you're not.

— Larry Ellison

If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.

— Larry Ellison

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.

— Larry Ellison

See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

— Larry Ellison

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

— Larry Ellison

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

— Larry Ellison

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

— Larry Ellison

Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.

— Larry Ellison

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

— Larry Ellison

Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method…

— Larry Ellison

Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you…

— Larry Ellison

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

— Larry Ellison

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…

— Larry Ellison

When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times…

— Larry Ellison

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…

— Larry Ellison

If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this…

— Larry Ellison

People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now…

— Larry Ellison

I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don't know what…

— Larry Ellison

In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your…

— Larry Ellison

I greatly admire GE, their utterly ruthlessly focused management, to get the cost out and get this integration done.’ Okay, we may…

— Larry Ellison

It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the…

— Larry Ellison

It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like…

— Larry Ellison

When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else…

— Larry Ellison

I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet,…

— Larry Ellison

All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better. You can't worry about it,…

— Larry Ellison

There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years.

— Larry Ellison

If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.

— Larry Ellison

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

— Larry Ellison

The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

— Larry Ellison

Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.

— Larry Ellison

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

— Larry Ellison

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

— Larry Ellison

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

— Larry Ellison

Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.

— Larry Ellison

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

— Larry Ellison

If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke.

— Larry Ellison

You can't spend as much money as I have, even if you try. I've been trying.

— Larry Ellison

All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better

— Larry Ellison

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

— Larry Ellison

Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.

— Larry Ellison