Larry Ellison Quotes & Sayings

“I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.”

“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.”

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

“Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.”

“Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.”

“It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.”

“When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very end, you push a button and say, 'Convert this to Android format.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”