257 Quotes by Larry Ellison

I think you might see us growing much deeper into banking. You might see us acquiring companies in the banking area. You might see us acquiring companies in the retail area. I think you might see us acquiring companies in the telecommunications. I think you will see us getting stronger in business intelligence.

It also strengthens our No. 1 positions in the application business in North America. And it moves us closer to our goal of being No. 1 in applications globally.

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.

It is absolutely true that we set out to expose Microsoft's covert activities,

What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.

I think the applications space will be diverse and complex five years from now,

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.

I think that's going to be difficult to achieve,

There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.