Larry Ellison Quotes

I want to win. I don't care about the money.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.

I think the people who end up being extraordinarily successful - it's been my observation - tend to care enormously about status, particularly business people, right? Because the only point of money, you know, the only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

When I left Facebook, I left an enormous amount of equity on the table. I thought, 'I don't want to be a slave to money. I want to be a slave to something bigger: an ambition, a goal.'

Someone once said to me that success isn't everything and I think I know what they really meant. I believe what they really meant was that money wasn't everything and I certainly agree with that. But I do believe that success IS everything.

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Getting to the top isn't bad, and it's probably best done as an afterthought.

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

I'm living what I always wanted to do.

I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.

I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.

The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they'd be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.

Anybody who seeks wealth as an end in itself is always going to be disappointed. What you really should be doing is seeking excellence in achievement.

After many of my victories, I hear people asking me these questions: 'What else is there to win?' And I want to shout, 'What do you mean, what else? There's so much else!'

You will have many more goals in the years ahead. But do not confuse a goal with a purpose.