Larry Ellison (1944-)

Larry Ellison quotes

• If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows ... This is not innovation. This is the end of innovation

  Larry Ellison

• In order to grow at this pace, there'll have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.

  Larry Ellison

• Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

  Larry Ellison

• You can’t worry about it, you can’t panic when you look at the stock market’s decline or you get frozen like a deer in the headlights. All you can do is all you can do.”

  Larry Ellison

• Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.”

  Larry Ellison

• We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

  Larry Ellison

• Those that believe this is merely a cyclical downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and, as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.

  Larry Ellison

• I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning.”

  Larry Ellison

• 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.

  Larry Ellison