All You Can Do Is Every Day,

To Model Yourself After Steve Jobs Is Like, 'i'd Like To Paint Like Picasso, What Should I Do? Should I Use More Red?'

Once The Business Data Have Been Centralized And Integrated, The Value Of The Database Is Greater Than The Sum Of The Preexisting Parts.

If Your Cash Is About To Run Out, You Have To Cut Your Cash Flow. Ceos Have To Make Those Decisions And Live With Them However Painful They May Be. You Have To Act And Act Now; And Act In The Best Interest Of The Company As A Whole, Even If It Means That Some People In The Company Who Are Your Best Friends Have To Work Somewhere Else.

When You Find Errors In Conventional Wisdom-when Everyone Says A And A Is Not True-you Gain Competitive Advantage. Only A Few Times Do You Have To Find Errors In Conventional Wisdom To Make A Living.

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."