29 Larry Ellison Quotes on Success (ORACLE)

Top 9 Most Famous Larry Ellison Quotes (BEST)

When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits. — When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to **learn** and discover my own limits.

Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid.

Life’s a journey. It’s a journey about discovering limits.

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

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

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success. — I have had all of 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’.

A corporation’s primary goal is to make money. Government’s primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give to others. — A corporation’s primary goal is to make **money**. Government’s primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give to others.

See things in the present, even if they are in the future. — See things in the present, even if they are in the **future**.

8 Inspirational Larry Ellison Quotes on 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. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it’s enormously useful in life.”
Larry Ellison

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

When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don’t know what you are going to do.

You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change. — You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can **change** and how quickly things could change.

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

You can’t worry about it, you can’t panic when you look at the stock market’s decline or you get frozen like a deer in the headlights. All you can do is all you can do.

Always have a vision. Be passionate. Act confident, even when you're not. — Always have a **vision**. Be **passionate**. Act **confident**, even when you’re not.

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

4 Larry Ellison Quotes on Software

“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.”
Larry Ellison

I think I am very goal orientated. I’d like to win the America’s cup. I’d like Oracle to be the #1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.

Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain’t seen nothing yet.

“So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That’s it; building things. The trouble with software is that it’s very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you’ve done.”
Larry Ellison