There's A Wonderful Saying That's Dead Wrong.

I'd Prefer People Read About Churchill And How He Wasn't Overwhelmed By Nazi Germany. Amazing; That The Morale Of A Country Rested On One Person's Shoulders. Extraordinary People Carried That Country Through Its Darkest Hours; Truly Inspirational. I Suppose That's My Theme. Whether It's A Biography Or A Movie; Whether It's Fictional Or True, I'm Inspired By People Doing Great Things.

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.

To Model Yourself After Steve Jobs Is Like, 'i'd Like To Paint Like Picasso, What Should I Do? Should I Use More Red?'

Great Achievers Are Driven, Not So Much By The Pursuit Of Success, But By The Fear Of Failure.