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Oracle founder shares secrets of success
February 13, 2009
It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you couldn't make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM said, "Oh yeah, this stuff is good."
All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better. You can't worry about it, you can't panic when you look at the stock market’s decline. You get frozen like a deer in the headlights. All you can do is all you can do.
You realise life is short and fragile, and when you are facing walls of water you understand your own mortality and how quickly things could change.
Five years from now I don't know how I'll think.
If I needed information to build something, I was relentless. I could not stop thinking about a problem that had to be solved in order to build something. I was obsessive. I certainly was never obsessive in the pursuit of knowledge, just knowledge. I liked solving problems and I loved building things. So I was a lousy student, but a good builder.
Image: Ellison with his company's $199 network computer, part of Oracle's initiative to encourage companies to
support schools. | Photograph: Reuters
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