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"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."
"I believe people have to follow their dreams-I did."
"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."
"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build."
"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion."
"... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better."
"I think about the business all the time. Well I shouldn't say all the time. I don't think about it when I am wakeboarding. But even when I am on vacation, or on my boat; I am on email everyday. I am always prowling around the internet looking at what our competitors are doing."
"All you can do is all you can do."
"Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet."
"When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living."
"What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing."
"It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead."
"In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin."
"We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company."
"When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure, I wanted to make a living. I certainly never expected to become rich, certainly not this rich. I mean, rich does not even describe this. This is surreal. And it has nothing to do with money. I mean, you buy clothes with money, and cars. But I really wanted to work with people I enjoyed working with, who I admired and liked."
"I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning."
"Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020."
"Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow."
"I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were."
"It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you couldn't make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM said, "Oh yeah, this stuff is good.""