Safra A. Catz Quotes

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Safra A. Catz

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : December 1, 1961

The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.

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Common sense will always prevail. America will advance the agenda for the greatest minds.

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Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.

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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.

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Managers used to say, 'I have a gut feeling.' Do you know what a gut feeling is for a professional manager? It's a pattern that they recognize. But if your system can recognize that pattern, if it's not just a couple of managers who know that pattern, then the system's gut feeling can tell you which way to go. That's really liberating.

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Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

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We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.

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Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.

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We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world.

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