Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
- Larry Ellison
Quotees Archive
Life’s a journey. It’s a journey about discovering limits.
- 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 and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.
- Larry Ellison
It’s surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn’t feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.
- Larry Ellison
It’s not sufficient that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
- Larry Ellison
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
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
AP pleaded guilty to criminal theft of our software. Let me be clear. I’m not accusing SAP of anything. What did SAP do? Did you engage in criminal behavior and steal lots of Oracle software? Yes. That’s SAP. Who was CEO when you were doing all this criminal stuff? Leo.
- Larry Ellison
Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
- Larry Ellison
Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
- Larry Ellison
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
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who’s going to build.
- Larry Ellison
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.
- Larry Ellison
Frequently I’ll be interviewing with somebody or talking and in about 15 minutes they’ll interrupt me mid-stream and say, ‘Oh my God, you’re nothing like I’d thought you’d be.’
- Larry Ellison
Game-playing is more fun when it’s virtual because you’re more successful. … in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron
- Larry Ellison
Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.
- Larry Ellison
I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.
- Larry Ellison
I believe people have to follow their dreams – I did.
- Larry Ellison
I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don’t know what I’ll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around … anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset.
- Larry Ellison
I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.
- Larry Ellison
A company is like a shark, it either has to move forward or it dies.
- Larry Ellison