Quotes by Larry Ellison

About Larry Ellison:

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison is an American programmer, internet entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist. He was the chief executive officer of the software company Oracle Corporation between its foundation in 1977 and 2014. In 2014, he was listed by Forbes as the third-wealthiest man in America and as the fifth-wealthiest person in the world, with a fortune of $56.2 billion.
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

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

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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.

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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

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

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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...

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Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.

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

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

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

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When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, 'Convert this to Android format.'

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

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Author Bio

  • NameLarry Ellison
  • DescriptionBusiness repellent
  • BornAugust 17, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur; Computer Scientist; Aviator