Larry Ellison Operating Quotations

We're missing an operating system. You could argue that it makes a lot of sense for us to look at distributing and supporting Linux.

If we had made less than 12 cents in operating income, we would have had to warn. We didn't warn.

It's a simple strategy. You take what you can't sell, you glue it into the operating system, and you raise the price of the operating system.

In order to grow at this pace, there'll have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.