Larry Ellison Quotes
Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I hate competition.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.
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It is one of the most important parts of my job, showing that you can't do it all.
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Everything lives and perishes through magnetism; one thing affects another one, even at great distances, and its "congenitals" may be influenced to health and disease by the power of this sympathy, at any time, and notwithstanding the intervening space.
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I really get that some people like the roots-rock, storytelling thing that I was doing, and I'm proud of that.
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You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.
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Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.
