Larry Ellison Quotes

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• 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

  Inspirational, Doe, Different

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

  Larry Ellison

  Business, Entrepreneur, Ifs

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• Act confident, even when you're not.

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  Confidence Love, Confidence And Love

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• Winning is not enough. All others must lose.

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  Winning, Enough, Loses

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

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  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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• The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

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  Inspirational, Errors, Way

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

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Achievement, Fear Of Failure

  "Lesson #4: Break Through That Wall". www.evancarmichael.com.

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

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  Inspirational, Believe, Order

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• You cannot innovate by copying.

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  Business, Copying

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Teacher, Personality

  "Prophet of Software". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Think of it as you want it, not as it is!

  Larry Ellison

  Thinking, Want

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• Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

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  Inspirational, Journey, Limits

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• 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.

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  Winning, Giving, Desire

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Money, Government

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• The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

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  School, World, Succeed

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• You have to act and act now.

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  Inspirational, Overcoming Adversity, Larry

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• ... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.

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  Mistake, Successful, Greed

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• I have had all the disadvantages required for success.

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  Inspirational, Success, Failure

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• 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. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source.

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  Fighting, Support, Insane

  FT Interview with Larry Ellison, www.ft.com. April 18, 2006.

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• So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.

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  Inspirational, Aunt, Florida

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• All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better

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  Trying, Problem, Company

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• All you can do is all you can do.

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  Can Do

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Men, Thinking

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• In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make.

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  Inspirational, Mistake, Errors

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• When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living.

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  Errors, Gains, Advantage

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