Five Years From Now, I Don't Know

When I Started Oracle, What I Wanted To Do Was To Create An Environment Where I Would Enjoy Working. That Was My Primary Goal. Sure, I Wanted To Make A Living. I Certainly Never Expected To Become Rich, Certainly Not This Rich. I Mean, Rich Does Not Even Describe This. This Is Surreal. And It Has Nothing To Do With Money. I Mean, You Buy Clothes With Money, And Cars. But I Really Wanted To Work With People I Enjoyed Working With, Who I Admired And Liked.

I Saw That We Needed To Grow But Our Top Line Wasn't Growing, So We Had To Find Other Ways To Grow The Business. We Had To Reshape Our Business And Acquire Share In A Non Conventional Way. But Most Tech Leaders Don't Come Out Of A Business Background. They Really Have A Parochial Point Of View. All They Know Are The Go-go Years Of Silicon Valley. That's The Environment In Which They Were Raised.

There Will Be No New Architecture For Computing For The Next 1,000 Years.

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.

I Think About The Business All The Time. Well I Shouldn't Say All The Time. I Don't Think About It When I Am Wakeboarding. But Even When I Am On Vacation, Or On My Boat; I Am On Email Everyday. I Am Always Prowling Around The Internet Looking At What Our Competitors Are Doing.