LARRY ELLISON

I dropped out of college twice. No MBA. No connections. Just a better database and the willingness to outwork everyone.

I started Oracle with two thousand dollars. It is now worth four hundred billion. Not bad for a college dropout.

AWS had a ten-year head start. We will catch them. I have caught up before.

I bought 98 percent of the island of Lanai. People said why. I said why not.

Business is war. I do not compete. I destroy.

I mocked cloud computing. Then I built a 50 billion dollar cloud business. I am allowed to change my mind.