I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.

I'm addicted to winning. The more you win, the more you want to win.

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.

Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid.

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.

If I were 21 years old, I would go into biotechnology or genetic engineering.