Larry Ellison Quotes

Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

I've always been stimulated by the sense of challenge.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

I hate failure and I am in love with achievement.

The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

Fear of failure is always a driver but the thirst for more is a good one too... So I think you need a little bit of both.

The only thing that stands between you and grand success in living are these two things: getting started and never quitting!

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

Because I came in second place, it makes me want to work harder

Giving up is the only sure way to fail.

As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

I was a sheet metal worker, then a metal engineer, then a Pontin's bluecoat, then a comedian. You can achieve anything you want if you put your mind to it.

It's the fear of failure that drives all of us at Red Bull.