Oracle has grown and advanced because we’ve been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves. Safra A. Catz Read Quote
I literally went down to my car and thought, ‘Oh my God, SAP bought Concur – maybe tomorrow they’ll buy Dairy Queen.’ It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle. Safra A. Catz Read Quote
Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas. Safra A. Catz Read Quote
SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases. Safra A. Catz Read Quote
My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion. Safra A. Catz Read Quote
What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it. Safra A. Catz Read Quote
Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens. Safra A. Catz Read Quote
My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning. Safra A. Catz Read Quote
Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It’s just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones. Safra A. Catz Read Quote
The demographic of young people… in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It’s a doorway to the digital nation, to education. Safra A. Catz Read Quote
