Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.
Larry EllisonBeing first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.
Larry EllisonWhen I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.
Larry EllisonIt'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."
Larry Ellison