If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

I know some people are offended by the fact that I'm spending a lot of money trying to win the America's Cup. I could have given all that money to charity.

Act confident, even when you're not.

Our goal is simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

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

Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as software, it doesn't cost us twice as much to build that software. So the more customers you have, the more scale you have. The larger you are, the more profitable you are.

I have run engineering since day one at Oracle, and I still run engineering. I hold meetings every week with the database team, the middle ware team, the applications team. I run engineering and I will do that until the board throws me out of there.