Larry Ellison Quotes

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.

The best technology is when you are free to do what you want.

I own my own time.

I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time.

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

I don't like closed systems.

I like to play by my own rules.

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

For the most part, I get to do what I want to do. If I want to play poker, I can. If I don't want to play poker, I don't have to.

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

When you are doing a TV series, people tell you when you have to wake up and when you have to have lunch, and I don't like it.

If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.

It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.

I like rice, as long as they let me put my own stuff on it. You can bring me white rice or brown rice; just let me doctor it up.

I'm not a big-company guy. I need freedom and control.

Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.

The best thing about being a business owner is that you get to run your own schedule.

I think it's important to be flexible and free, and you can't be free and spontaneous if you don't know what you're doing.

The best part of owning a blog is the fact that you are in control. You can write about anything you want to write about. You can decide how your blog looks. You can decide who to target. You can decide how to monetize the blog. You have full control!

It's never bad to have options.

I need to have a great deal of control and the ability to share my control with my collaborators and grant them the freedom and the quality of work I think these people deserve. If I don't have those elements, I walk away.