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Oracle founder shares secrets of success
February 13, 2009
I think after a certain amount I'm going to give almost everything I have to charity. Because what else can you do with it? You can't spend it, even if you try. I've been trying.
We have been doing things that are contrary - the things people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.
Now it's true, I don't run operations. But I've never really run operations. I've never had the endurance to run sales. The whole idea of selling to the customer just isn't my personality. I'm an engineer -- tell me why something isn't working or is, and I'm curious.
I think I'm very goal-oriented. I'd like to win the America's Cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it's possible to beat Microsoft, believe it or not, for us to be a more important company than Microsoft.
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.
Image: Larry Ellison with CNN founder Ted Turner. | Photograph: Reuters
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