Winning Is Not Enough. All Others Must

Act Confident, Even When You're Not.

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.

See Things In The Present, Even If They Are In The Future.

I Have Run Engineering Since Day One At Oracle, And I Still Run Engineering. I Hold Meetings Every Week With The Database Team, The Middle Ware Team, The Applications Team. I Run Engineering And I Will Do That Until The Board Throws Me Out Of There.

When I Do Something, It Is All About Self-discovery. I Want To Learn And Discover My Own Limits.