Larry Ellison is best known as the Co-founder of Oracle Corporation. During 1970s, he was working on a project for CIA on database. He named the project ‘Oracle’. After developing the database product Oracle Database, the company became very popular. Here we will learn some leadership ideas from Larry Ellison quotes.
- “Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid.”
- “When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.”
- “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’.”
- “Life’s a journey. It’s a journey about discovering limits.”
- “You have to act and act now.”
- “I have had all the disadvantages required for success.”
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