91 Quotes by Richard Williams

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    We played as well as we've played all year long defensively for one half, but it's my fault that after being evenly matched in the first half we didn't get it done,

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    We're blessed with a little bit of speed. The skill people, if they find a crack, they can take it to the house.

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    There is a very real risk to Oracle. All of the enterprise software companies are making a major push down market.

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    This strikes me as a trial balloon, ... Management may be getting tired of the harping on the dividend so if they give investors a quarter of the cash to shut people up, then the company can get back to business.

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    The fact that the EU is showing its teeth is very significant. Microsoft kind of got away with things in the U.S.

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    We didn't give our best effort. We started growing up tonight. With the results, it's evident. This was a critical first step.

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    To buy (Siebel) and combine them along with other smaller acquisitions into Oracle in a very short time is an unprecedented task in terms of difficulty. It's not easy by any stretch, and that is a lot of risk to try to do that in a short time with a bunch of different technologies.

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    We see tremendous market acceptance when Microsoft's next big enterprise software product comes out. And when you look at the sheer numbers, it's arguably as big a market as the original Windows market,

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