257 Quotes by Larry Ellison

We're very excited about this product. It's one of our biggest announcements for many, many years. It's the result of years of innovation and hard work.

Winning is not enough. All others must lose.

We think that's a very important asset and we want to preserve and invest in it.

We think of Microsoft as our major competitor in the database business, not IBM,

If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.

Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as software, it doesn't cost us twice as much to build that software. So the more customers you have, the more scale you have. The larger you are, the more profitable you are.

We think Microsoft is a very serious competitor going forward in the applications business. It's not simply going to be Oracle versus SAP.

When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don't know what you are going to do.

Based on our current pipelines the entire management team believes that the overall year should be very strong, ... Specifically we expect that Oracle's software sales will grow faster this year than last. And margins should continue to improve as well.