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

#big #chunk #corporation #give #goal

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

#bill #bill gates #edison #gates #intelligence

Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#cloud #enterprise #got #live #nothin

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

— Larry Ellison

#everyone #got #innovate #nuts #prepared

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

— Larry Ellison

#autonomy #high #looked #price #thought

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

— Larry Ellison

#bill #bill gates #build #computer #computer industry

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#had #i #required #success

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

— Larry Ellison

#lead #mankind #microsoft #only #slight

Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#desktop #goal #our #simply #very

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. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#call #cloud #computing #i #internet