Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellisonis an American businessman who is co-founder of Oracle Corporation and was CEO from its founding until September 2014. He currently serves as executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle. In 2014, he was listed by Forbes magazine as the third-wealthiest person in America and as the fifth-wealthiest person in the world, with a fortune of US$56.2 billion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth17 August 1944
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
We believe that our growth and PeopleSoft's decline resulted in part from an increase in our competitive win rate over PeopleSoft, and the fact that we are beginning to replace PeopleSoft at a number of major accounts,
Back in 1995, it was very clear to us that we had to stop doing desktop software and we don't do any desktop Windows software, ... We moved everything to big Internet servers. Our database is designed for the Internet, our applications are designed for the Internet.
I know some people are offended by the fact that I'm spending a lot of money trying to win the America's Cup. I could have given all that money to charity.
I'm addicted to winning. The more you win, the more you want to win.
I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Sure, there’s the talent, but there also has to be the will. Give me human will and the intense desire to win and it will trump talent every day of the week.
Winning is not enough. All others must lose.
I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning.
We highlighted 10 of our more than 450 customers that are currently live after just one year of the e-business suite.
We're very excited about this product. It's one of our biggest announcements for many, many years. It's the result of years of innovation and hard work.
I slept fine over the weekend, so conclude what you like. We're going to have a great year.
Every application we make works with the Mac today,
Rather than try to fight the open source trend, we think it's important to find ways to make it work to our advantage.
Our current quarter looks a lot stronger than our previous quarter, ... We're seeing some of the big deals coming back.