The Things That Caused Problems For Me

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.

If Your Cash Is About To Run Out, You Have To Cut Your Cash Flow. Ceos Have To Make Those Decisions And Live With Them However Painful They May Be. You Have To Act And Act Now; And Act In The Best Interest Of The Company As A Whole, Even If It Means That Some People In The Company Who Are Your Best Friends Have To Work Somewhere Else.

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.

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.

Those That Believe This Is Merely A Downturn Are Mad. Our Industry Is Going To Mature And As Something Matures, The Rate Of Innovation Does Slow.