What is Oracle? It’s people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people. Larry Ellison Read Quote
When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky – poor parents! – I would be home before it got dark. Larry Ellison Read Quote
Game-playing is more fun when it’s virtual because you’re more successful. … in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron. Larry Ellison Read Quote
My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it’s someone’s home that you walk through. Larry Ellison Read Quote
I’m going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I’ve got Japanese. Larry Ellison Read Quote
Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world’s pineapples. But the world’s pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States. Larry Ellison Read Quote
People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don’t like change. A bunch of people don’t like the Olympics now because we’ve added skateboarding… We’re modernizing the sport. Larry Ellison Read Quote
I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, ‘We’re going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.’ Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it. Larry Ellison Read Quote
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 Read Quote
