Larry Ellison Quotes

There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.

It’s a huge country. Floods, fires, accidents. You worry, you make phone calls, you sort things out.

You can learn to prevent a storm, or you can learn to ride the storm. If you learn to ride the storm, the storm is not a problem anymore.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better

To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.

The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.

When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it, you have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!

...don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about.

When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

Learning to let go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large, brother-in-law or end-of-quarter office lockdown—like a beach ball on water. The next time a problem arises in your life, take a deep breath, let out a sigh, and replace the thought Oh no! with the thought Okay.

It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

I know enough to know that when you're in a pickle... call Mom.

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

... what would Poirot do? Poirot wouldn't flap around in a panic. He'd stay calm and use his little grey cells and recall some tiny, vital detail which would be the clue to everything.

Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means to be aware, and to try to help.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

I never panic when I get lost. I just change where it is I want to go.

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

Worry means the mind is controlling you. Worry is always pointless. A solution never comes out of worry.

Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan.