Larry Ellison Quotes
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Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world’s pineapples. But the world’s pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States. (Larry Ellison Quotes)
When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don’t know what you are going to do. (Larry Ellison Quotes)
We’ll continue to expand our footprint... Oracle’s Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface and an integrated social network that makes our enterprise applications as easy-to-use and familiar as Facebook, while enabling better collaboration and teamwork among your employees and your customers. (Larry Ellison Quotes)
My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it’s someone’s home that you walk through. (Larry Ellison Quotes)
We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we’re going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water. (Larry Ellison Quotes)
Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it’s just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don’t need more money (Larry Ellison Quotes)
Act confident, even when you’re not (Larry Ellison Quotes)
The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom (Larry Ellison Quotes)
Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible (Larry Ellison Quotes)
Winning is not enough. All others must lose (Larry Ellison Quotes)
If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering (Larry Ellison Quotes)
You have to act and act now (Larry Ellison Quotes)
Think of it as you want it, not as it is! (Larry Ellison Quotes)
You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want (Larry Ellison Quotes)
Life’s a journey. It’s a journey about discovering limits (Larry Ellison Quotes)
See things in the present, even if they are in the future (Larry Ellison Quotes)
All you can do is all you can do (Larry Ellison Quotes)
The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it’s enormously useful in life (Larry Ellison Quotes)
In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin (Larry Ellison Quotes)
Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure (Larry Ellison Quotes)
I’m addicted to winning. The more you win, the more you want to win (Larry Ellison Quotes)
When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don’t know what you are going to do (Larry Ellison Quotes)
Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales (Larry Ellison Quotes)
When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts (Larry Ellison Quotes)
You can’t spend as much money as I have, even if you try. I’ve been trying (Larry Ellison 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 (Larry Ellison Quotes)
All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better. You can’t worry about it, you can’t panic when you look at the stock market’s decline. You get frozen like a deer in the headlights. All you can do is all you can do (Larry Ellison Quotes)
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Sure, there’s the talent, but there also has to be the will. Give me human will and the intense desire to win and it will trump talent every day of the week (Larry Ellison Quotes)
In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make (Larry Ellison Quotes)
Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative (Larry Ellison Quotes)