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Larry Ellison Biography

Lawrence "Larry" Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who is co-founder, executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle Corporation. As of January 2018, he was listed by Forbes magazine as the fifth-wealthiest person in the United States and as the eighth-wealthiest in the world, with a fortune of $62.4 billion.

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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.

Big, Goal, Government, Inspirational, Money

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

Believe, Inspirational, Order

All you can do is all you can do.

Can Do

There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years.

Years, Next, Architecture, Computing, 1000

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.

Blogs, Doe, Microprocessors, Place, Really Great, Software

The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?

Fashion, Talking, Ideas, Idea, Insane

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.

Inspirational, Mistake, Errors, Away, Having

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.

Couple, Inspirational, Maintain, Margin, Order, Way

It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.

Competition, Inspirational, Jobs, Moving, Oracle, Supplant

The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

Caused, Help, School, Succeed, World

We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

Errors, Inspirational, People, Tell, Work

If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.

Inspirational, Innovation, Microsoft, Software, Innovative, Windows

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

Business, Everyone, Innovate, Inspirational, Success, Telling

You have to act and act now.

Act, Inspirational, Larry, Overcoming Adversity

You have to take a broader view and realize this is an industry like any other - telecoms, Railroads; they went through consolidation. Why shouldn't the computer industry be any different? This shouldn't have been a surprise to anybody but it seemed to be, and a lot of people thought I was nuts when I said these things. And that's why they are alone as a consolidator.

Consolidation, Inspirational, Nuts, Railroads, Telecoms, Views

I hate the PC, with a passion.

Hate, I Hate, Passion

If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it - a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all - you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source.

Charge, Fighting, Free, Insane, Owns, Support

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.

Inspirational, Business, Mean, Method, Keeping

I saw that we needed to grow but our top line wasn't growing, so we had to find other ways to grow the business. We had to reshape our business and acquire share in a non conventional way. But most tech leaders don't come out of a business background. They really have a parochial point of view. All they know are the go-go years of Silicon Valley. That's the environment in which they were raised.

Come, Grow, Inspirational, View, Views, Years

I am also involved with all the acquisitions and overall strategy. Now it's true, I don't run operations. But I've never really run operations. I've never had the endurance to run sales. The whole idea of selling to the customer just isn't my personality. I'm an engineer, tell me why something isn't working or is and I am curious.

Acquisitions, Customer, Ideas, Inspirational, Involved, Running

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