Larry Ellison Quotes
What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
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I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.
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Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.
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In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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The best way to prepare to be a programmer is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.
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Athletes can definitely have an impact on society. And it's great that athletes can be a part of uniting the population.
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We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.
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Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.
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I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.
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What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.
