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When You Innovate, You've Got To Be Prepared For Everyone Telling You You're Nuts.

We Have Been Doing Things That Are Contrary; The Things That People Tell Us Won't Work From The Beginning. In Fact, The Only Way To Get Ahead Is To Find Errors In Conventional Wisdom.

Think Of It As You Want It, Not As It Is!

It's My Job For Oracle, The Number Two Software Company In The World; To Become The Number One Software Company In The World. My Job Is To Build Better Than The Competition, Sell Those Products In The Marketplace And Eventually Supplant Microsoft And Move From Being Number Two To Number One.

You Have To Take A Broader View And Realize This Is An Industry Like Any Other - Telecoms, Railroads; They Went Through Consolidation. Why Shouldn't The Computer Industry Be Any Different? This Shouldn't Have Been A Surprise To Anybody But It Seemed To Be, And A Lot Of People Thought I Was Nuts When I Said These Things. And That's Why They Are Alone As A Consolidator.