Larry Ellison

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

“I have had all the disadvantages required for success.”

“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.”

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

“Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.”

“I think after a certain amount, I'm going to give almost everything I have to charity. What else can you do with it? You can't spend it, even if you try.”

“The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.”

“When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uneasy. So deal with it. Don't be precious.”

“You have to act and act now.”

“Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.”

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

“Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.”

“You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.”

“When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working.”