Larry Ellison Quotes

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Larry Ellison

Profession : Businessman

Birth : August 17, 1944

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.

Larry Ellison

It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.

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Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.

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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

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Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.

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Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.

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I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.

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I'm in two modes when I'm on Lanai: In engineering mode, I'm trying to find the right place for the reservoir and the desalination plant, and looking at designs for new hotel rooms. The rest of the time, I'm in decompression mode. I'm on Hulopoe Beach, going for a swim, or on my paddleboard surrounded by 100 spinner dolphins.

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The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.

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We'll continue to expand our footprint... Oracle's Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface and an integrated social network that makes our enterprise applications as easy-to-use and familiar as Facebook, while enabling better collaboration and teamwork among your employees and your customers.

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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.

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When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.

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When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, 'Convert this to Android format.'

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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

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Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.

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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

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I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.

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We have an ideal location for a couple of organic wineries on the island. But the reintroduction of commercial agriculture to Lanai is 100% dependent upon increasing the available water on the island. So we're going to use solar energy to convert seawater to fresh water.

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