The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

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

I hate the PC, with a passion.

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.