257 Quotes by Larry Ellison

I hate the PC, with a passion.

I am also involved with all the acquisitions and overall strategy. Now it's true, I don't run operations. But I've never really run operations. I've never had the endurance to run sales. The whole idea of selling to the customer just isn't my personality. I'm an engineer, tell me why something isn't working or is and I am curious.

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.

I’m addicted to winning. The more you win, the more you want to win.

We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won’t work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better. You can’t worry about it, you can’t panic when you look at the stock market’s decline. You get frozen like a deer in the headlights. All you can do is all you can do.

Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Life’s a journey. It’s a journey about discovering limits.