Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.

Act confident, even when you're not.

I have had all the disadvantages required for success.

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 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.

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

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.