It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.

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

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.

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.

I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale.

The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world.

I have had all the disadvantages required for success.