I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box. — Safra A. Catz Attitude Copy Share Image
Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens. — Safra A. Catz Accountability Copy Share Image
We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world. — Safra A. Catz Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
It is not a coincidence that Fusion middleware and applications have the same name. We knew what we needed it to be. — Safra A. Catz Applications Copy Share Image
A core focus of our effort is based on the recognition that our customers have varying needs, and one of their most… — Safra A. Catz Choice Copy Share Image
SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases. — Safra A. Catz Business Copy Share Image
It's critical to simplify and run the business in such a way that resources are released to invest in your main business. — Safra A. Catz Business Copy Share Image
In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it?… — Safra A. Catz Business Copy Share Image
We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was… — Safra A. Catz Advice Copy Share Image
As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change.… — Safra A. Catz Afraid Copy Share Image
My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding… — Safra A. Catz Best Copy Share Image
My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for… — Safra A. Catz Corporate Copy Share Image
The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on… — Safra A. Catz Future Copy Share Image
Whether you're a government entity, a large enterprise, or a startup, a true digital transformation takes advantage of technology to focus on… — Safra A. Catz Business Copy Share Image
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math,… — Safra A. Catz Bar Copy Share Image
What happened in the past can help you know what's going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level… — Safra A. Catz Future Copy Share Image
Managers used to say, 'I have a gut feeling.' Do you know what a gut feeling is for a professional manager? It's… — Safra A. Catz Go Copy Share Image
I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of… — Safra A. Catz Day Copy Share Image
Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves. — Safra A. Catz Because Copy Share Image
Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas. — Safra A. Catz Does Copy Share Image
Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender. — Safra A. Catz Achievement Copy Share Image
Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources. — Safra A. Catz Corporations Copy Share Image
Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups. — Safra A. Catz Entrepreneurship Copy Share Image
Common sense will always prevail. America will advance the agenda for the greatest minds. — Safra A. Catz America Copy Share Image
The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better. — Safra A. Catz Better Copy Share Image
The worst decision, hands down, was wearing bright yellow when I was 9 months pregnant. I looked like a bumble bee. I… — Safra A. Catz Bee Copy Share Image
There are so many immigrant-led success stories in the United States, and the fact that it's gotten so much harder for educated… — Safra A. Catz Educated Copy Share Image
Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became… — Safra A. Catz About Copy Share Image
Hardware ultimately is a scale game, and it's a differentiation game. If you are literally selling products that are completely undifferentiated, like… — Safra A. Catz Computers Copy Share Image
I come from Wall Street, and you'll never see me do a PowerPoint because I'm all about Excel spreadsheets. If it's not… — Safra A. Catz Don-t-care Copy Share Image
I teach at the Stanford Business School, and about half of my students are foreign, many of whom, I hope, will stay… — Safra A. Catz Business Copy Share Image
The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital… — Safra A. Catz Computers Copy Share Image
My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and… — Safra A. Catz Bravest Copy Share Image
I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and… — Safra A. Catz Business Copy Share Image
In the cloud, customers don't want a six-month contract negotiation; that concept is absurd when you can implement a cloud-based suite from… — Safra A. Catz Beginning Copy Share Image
First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we… — Safra A. Catz Data Copy Share Image
If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source?… — Safra A. Catz Business Copy Share Image
Let your customers be your partners; let your vendors be your employees. What's necessary in this transformation more than anything else is… — Safra A. Catz Change Copy Share Image
