Safra Catz Quotes

“If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.”

“My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.”

“Clearly, we had an amazing start to the year because Oracle has become the go-to place for AI workloads.”

“Transforming yourself and modernizing yourself — that's not a destination, it's a constant journey.”

“In fact, anytime you stop, your competitors are going to pass you.”

“And one of the reasons that businesses succeed is when they're adaptable and when they're absolutely willing to change.”

“Today, Oracle is recognized as the cloud of choice for both AI training and inferencing. I'm very proud of that.”

“When we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative.”

“I come from Wall Street, and you'll never see me do a PowerPoint because I'm all about Excel spreadsheets. If it's not in the numbers, I don't care how strategic it is, it doesn't play out.”

“We have signed significant cloud contracts with the who's who of AI, including OpenAI, xAI, Meta, Nvidia, AMD, and many others.”

“The biggest lesson I've learned this year is to be reminded of one I learned a long time ago, but still requires constant discipline: Listen, think and don't be afraid to change your position based on new facts.”

“We don't want to follow others. We always try to do something differently. Being No. 1 is very, very important. It also means you're the best and solving customers' needs.”

“We can't sell you hardware and software and say good luck to you — we are here to serve you. That's been a real change and I hope you feel it.”

“Changing quickly has always been considered sort of risky. But what we saw during COVID was that changing fast, actually, isn't risky at all — in fact, changing slowly can be fatal.”

“It is absolutely time. You want to make a transition like this when things are great.”