Larry Ellison Inspirational Quotes

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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.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Money, Government

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

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Errors, Way

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

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Journey, Limits

• 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

• 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.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Change, Business

• 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.

• 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

  Inspirational, Teacher, Personality

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

• To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Jobs, Use

• I believe people have to follow their dreams-I did.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Dream, Believe

• When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don't know what you are going to do.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, People, Live Your Life

• You have to act and act now.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Overcoming Adversity, Larry

• All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better. You can't worry about it, you can't panic when you look at the stock market's decline. You get frozen like a deer in the headlights. All you can do is all you can do.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Worry, Trying

• Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

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

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Winning, Want

  "11 Outrageous Things Billionaire Larry Ellison Has Taught The World (ORCL)" by Julie Bort, www.sfgate.com. April 29, 2014.

• When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Discovery, Self

• 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 there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Mountain, Would Be

• When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure, I wanted to make a living. I certainly never expected to become rich, certainly not this rich. I mean, rich does not even describe this. This is surreal. And it has nothing to do with money. I mean, you buy clothes with money, and cars. But I really wanted to work with people I enjoyed working with, who I admired and liked.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Mean, Clothes

  Interview with Daniel Morrow, americanhistory.si.edu. October 24, 1995.

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

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Believe, Order

• You can't spend as much money as I have, even if you try. I've been trying.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Trying, Ifs

• I have had all the disadvantages required for success.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Success, Failure

• We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Software, Enterprise

• I'd prefer people read about Churchill and how he wasn't overwhelmed by Nazi Germany. Amazing; that the morale of a country rested on one person's shoulders. Extraordinary people carried that country through its darkest hours; truly inspirational. I suppose that's my theme. Whether it's a biography or a movie; whether it's fictional or true, I'm inspired by people doing great things.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Country, People

• I think you might see us growing much deeper into banking. You might see us acquiring companies in the banking area. You might see us acquiring companies in the retail area. I think you might see us acquiring companies in the telecommunications. I think you will see us getting stronger in business intelligence.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Thinking, Stronger

• 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

  Inspirational, Cost, Scales

  "ORACLE CORP. / ON THE RECORD: Larry Ellison". The Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. May 8, 2005.

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