Larry Ellison Quotes

“When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.”

“I'm addicted to winning. The more you win, the more you want to win.”

“You have to act and act now.”

“Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.”

“Winning is not enough. All others must lose.”

“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”

“You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.”

“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Sure, there's the talent, but there also has to be the will. Give me human will and the intense desire to win and it will trump talent every day of the week.”

“I just can't accept defeat until I've been carried dead from the field.”

“I've always been more motivated by fear of failure than by greed.”

“It's win or die.”

“I am a sprinter. I rest, I sprint, I rest, I sprint again.”

“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.”

“If a company designs both hardware and software, it can build much better systems than if they only design the software. That's why Apple's iPhone is so much better than Microsoft phones.”

“AI changes everything.”

“If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it — a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all — you have to find places to add value.”

“I don't think anyone looks at it that way — a snapshot of what's the state of your product now, what's the state of their product now. The vast majority of people look at a long-term, five- to ten-year relationship with a supplier — how is that product going to evolve and not just meet my needs today but meet my needs two years from now, four years from now, or ten years from now.”

“Their dreams and my dreams were different. I would never confuse the two again.”

“There's a global database for credit with all everyone's credit card information that allows you to have credit cards. There's no system that keeps track of our medical records in a single place that anyone can find in an emergency. What does that say about our priorities as a civilization?”

“He stands alone. There's no one else like this, who has prospered in Silicon Valley for 50 years. Other people have passed on; he perseveres.”