Larry Ellison Quotes on People (7 Quotes)

My impression is that we're gaining share, ... More and more people are using Oracle.

Guys were knocked down time and time again, but kept getting up to do what had to be done to keep us alive. It's a tough crew, but the guys were choked up. We were learning of people dying.

Right now, 70 percent of the people don't have computers. And where they're needed most, people don't have them. We think this will enable anyone to own a computer. We're aiming at everybody who uses a computer as an information access device. The original idea was to build one cheaply enough to put one on every desk,

People like you are supposed to expose this stuff, ... People like us are just trying to help. I never knew that we were doing any of this stuff, but if Microsoft is creating front organizations, I feel very good about bringing that information to the public.

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 majority of the people being laid off are Oracle employees, not Siebel employees.

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.