"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."
"I am also involved with all the acquisitions and overall strategy. Now it's true, I don't run operations. But I've never really run operations. I've never had the endurance to run sales. The whole idea of selling to the customer just isn't my personality. I'm an engineer, tell me why something isn't working or is and I am curious."
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Source: Oracle's Ellison Nails Cloud Computing. www.cnet.com. September 26, 2008.
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