Larry Ellison's Quotes

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

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

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 right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

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

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

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

Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

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

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.

We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.

I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.