Who doesn't want to be comfortable all day long?
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.
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.
Dames lie about anything - just for practice.
We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.
I'm still working on my time machine. If I ever perfect it, I'm going back in time to prevent Ace Ventura 2 from being made. And then I'm going after Hitler.
These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science.