You have to act and act now.

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.

We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.

The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.

We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

You cannot innovate by copying.