Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.
Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid.
Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.
Taking care of your employees is extremely important, and very, very visible.
You can't spend as much money as I have, even if you try. I've been trying.
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 greatly admire GE, their utterly ruthlessly focused management, to get the cost out and get this integration done. ’ Okay, we may make a few mistakes along the way but we are not going to waste any time. ' They make decisions; they are incredibly disciplined and focused.
I don't care what the American people think, I own the congress!
Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.
I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
It's important for little girls to have characters to look up to, and also be entertained by the fantasy parts. There are a lot of not-so-good role models out there for younger kids, it's good to have someone they can relate to on television.