Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellisonis an American businessman who is co-founder of Oracle Corporation and was CEO from its founding until September 2014. He currently serves as executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle. In 2014, he was listed by Forbes magazine as the third-wealthiest person in America and as the fifth-wealthiest person in the world, with a fortune of US$56.2 billion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth17 August 1944
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Act confident, even when you're not.
The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.
When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.
The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.
When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
I have had all the disadvantages required for success.
Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
The majority of the people being laid off are Oracle employees, not Siebel employees.
The code is pretty much overrated. It's more important to know such things as structure, features and functionality.
The Independent Institute is neither independent nor an institute,
All of Tom's experience will be very valuable to Oracle for the next couple of years, ... I have no problem with him saying not-nice things about me in the past. I might have said some things about him. I forget. That's all water under the bridge. We're on the same team again.
All the information about you as a patient would be in one spot, ... The idea here is to stop collecting paper.
It is absolutely true that we set out to expose Microsoft's covert activities,