Larry Ellison, as of 2016, Is the 5Th Wealthiest Person in the World. Ellison Is an American Entrepreneur, and the Founder of Oracle Corporation. Born in New...
Larry Ellison, as of 2016, is the 5th wealthiest person in the world.
Ellison is an American entrepreneur, and the founder of Oracle Corporation. Born in New York, his estimated net worth is just over $49 billion!
As you can probably tell, there’s a lot to be learned from Ellison’s success in business. Here’s our collection of the 45 best Larry Ellison quotes for entrepreneurs:
45 Larry Ellison Quotes
1. “A corporation’s primary goal is to make money. Government’s primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give to others.” – Larry Ellison
2. “Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid.” – Larry Ellison
3. “I have had all the disadvantages required for success.” – Larry Ellison
4. “I think after a certain amount, I’m going to give almost everything I have to charity. What else can you do with it? You can’t spend it, even if you try. I’ve been trying.” – Larry Ellison
5. “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
6. “It’s Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.” – Larry Ellison
7. “The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it’s enormously useful in life.” – Larry Ellison
8. “We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.” – 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
10. “Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as software, it doesn’t cost us twice as much to build that software. So the more customers you have, the more scale you have. The larger you are, the more profitable you are.” – Larry Ellison
11. “Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.” – Larry Ellison
12. “I have run engineering since day one at Oracle, and I still run engineering. I hold meetings every week with the database team, the middle ware team, the applications team. I run engineering and I will do that until the board throws me out of there.” – Larry Ellison
13. “I think I am very goal oriented. I’d like to win the America’s cup. I’d like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.” – Larry Ellison
14. “If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you’re going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to ‘be different’.” – Larry Ellison
15. “Life’s a journey. It’s a journey about discovering limits.” – Larry Ellison
16. “There’s a wonderful saying that’s dead wrong. ‘Why did you climb the mountain? ‘I climbed the mountain because it was there.’ That’s utter nonsense. You climbed the mountain because you were here and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.” – Larry Ellison
