257 Quotes by Larry Ellison

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.

He's always thought I was taking too much of a risk by holding on to my Oracle (stock).

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.

People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now because we've added skateboarding... We're modernizing the sport.

I don't think that's an unreasonable target, ... through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth.

I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.

I don't want to imply that our only partner here is Sun just as Sun doesn't want to imply going forward that its only partner is Oracle.

Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.