257 Quotes by Larry Ellison

Microsoft isn't good at security. We're good at that and I don't think sending a memo is going to help,

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."

You'll see us controlling our costs, and one of the ways we control costs is by managing headcount, ... I don't think there is any company out there now that is not being asked to do more with less.

You have to act and act now.

You'll see it in the newspapers. Oracle's strong preference is to do everything hostilely.

Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.

While BEA is a less attractive candidate, it doesn't mean we are running out of targets,

Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.

While that may underscore our database growth in the fourth quarter, it bodes extremely well for database sales in the first quarter, and the second quarter and the third quarter, ... It's because we didn't sweep the table in the fourth quarter and we will never sweep the table again.