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I Know Some People Are Offended By The Fact That I'm Spending A Lot Of Money Trying To Win The America's Cup. I Could Have Given All That Money To Charity.

A Corporation's Primary Goal Is To Make Money. Government's Primary Role Is To Take A Big Chunk Of That Money And Give It To Others.

If You Do Everything That Everyone Else Does In Business, You're Going To Lose. The Only Way To Really Be Ahead, Is To 'be Different'.

It's Fascinating As We Continue To Innovate And Lead The Way In Both The Application Space And The Database Space. In The Very Beginning, People Said You Couldn't Make Relational Databases Fast Enough To Be Commercially Viable. I Thought We Could, And We Were The First To Do It. But We Took Tremendous Abuse Until Ibm Said, "oh Yeah, This Stuff Is Good."

I Think I Am Very Goal Oriented. I'd Like To Win The America's Cup. I'd Like Oracle To Be The No 1 Software Company In The World. I Still Think It Is Possible To Beat Microsoft.