Larry Ellison Quotes on Business & Commerce (11 Quotes)

You can't conform in business, ... If you adhere to conventional wisdom, if you do everything everyone else does, you're going to lose, The only way to get ahead, to really get ahead. is to be different.

We think Microsoft is a very serious competitor going forward in the applications business. It's not simply going to be Oracle versus SAP.

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

The real highlight of our most recent quarter was the 57 percent growth in our applications business, and this merger is going to make that applications business bigger and stronger,

We are optimistic about becoming number one in the middleware business,

We think of Microsoft as our major competitor in the database business, not IBM,

An appropriate setup for some businesses might be to use midrange servers for the database and smaller servers for their applications, he said. However, in a couple of years it's not inconceivable that we could be recommending Intel-based servers for everything, ... It's not out of the question.

Those that believe this is merely a cyclical downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and, as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.

Our applications business is strong and getting stronger, ... Oracle's new e-Business Suite puts every aspect of a business -- marketing, sales, service, procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, accounting, human resources -- everything, on the Internet. All the applications in our suite are designed and engineered to work together, so customers buying the entire suite don't need to do any systems integration.

Four years ago at Telecom 95, I made some people very angry when I said the PC is a ridiculous device, ... Now the Internet has pushed the PC off stage, and will eventually change, not just the industry, but our economies and cultures.

The growth rate is also higher than our database business. It's a sticky business with the license renewals and is on the high end of our value chain,