I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.
Taking care of your employees is extremely important, and very, very visible.
Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.
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.
It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you couldn't make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM said, "Oh yeah, this stuff is good. "
Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
I can go back to when I was six years old. I was always getting in trouble for dreaming, and the things I got in trouble for dreaming then are the things I'm doing today.
If you do not think well of Him because His qualities are beautiful then think well of Him because of the way He treats you.
I think we need to develop the courage to write from the viewpoint of people who may seem quite different from ourselves, who might have a different sexual orientation or a different race or a different ethnicity.