"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."
"If your cash is about to run out, you have to cut your cash flow. CEOs have to make those decisions and live with them however painful they may be. You have to act and act now; and act in the best interest of the company as a whole, even if it means that some people in the company who are your best friends have to work somewhere else."
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Source: Oracle's Ellison Nails Cloud Computing. www.cnet.com. September 26, 2008.
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