Larry Ellison

I think after a certain amount, I’m going to give almost everything I have to charity. What else can you do with…

— Larry Ellison

One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is…

— Larry Ellison

I know some people are offended by the fact that I'm spending a lot of money trying to win the America's Cup.…

— Larry Ellison

Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica…

— Larry Ellison

When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don't know…

— Larry Ellison

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can't think…

— Larry Ellison

What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if…

— Larry Ellison

I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic…

— Larry Ellison

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…

— Larry Ellison

You have to take a broader view and realize this is an industry like any other - telecoms, Railroads; they went through…

— Larry Ellison

I saw that we needed to grow but our top line wasn't growing, so we had to find other ways to grow…

— Larry Ellison

What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people -…

— Larry Ellison

We'll continue to expand our footprint... Oracle's Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface…

— Larry Ellison

If your cash is about to run out, you have to cut your cash flow. CEOs have to make those decisions and…

— Larry Ellison

The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no…

— Larry Ellison

I'm in two modes when I'm on Lanai: In engineering mode, I'm trying to find the right place for the reservoir and…

— Larry Ellison

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is…

— Larry Ellison

We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand -…

— Larry Ellison

When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push…

— Larry Ellison

We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the…

— Larry Ellison

Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.

— Larry Ellison

My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home…

— Larry Ellison

When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents…

— Larry Ellison

Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate…

— Larry Ellison

In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing…

— Larry Ellison

I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese…

— Larry Ellison

Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting…

— Larry Ellison

Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward…

— Larry Ellison

They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you…

— Larry Ellison

We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the…

— Larry Ellison

I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the…

— Larry Ellison

So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is…

— Larry Ellison

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Sure, there’s the talent, but there also has to be the will. Give me…

— Larry Ellison

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help…

— Larry Ellison

Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as…

— Larry Ellison

I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that…

— Larry Ellison

I think about the business all the time. Well I shouldn't say all the time. I don't think about it when I…

— Larry Ellison