Quotes.gg
Made by Last Media

Safra A. Catz

Popular Posts
#Tags
The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education. - Safra A. Catz
#Digital
#Education
#More
#Nation
#People
The worst decision, hands down, was wearing bright yellow when I was 9 months pregnant. I looked like a bumble bee. I have not worn yellow since. - Safra A. Catz
#Bee
#Decision
#Hands
#Worst
#Yellow
Hardware ultimately is a scale game, and it's a differentiation game. If you are literally selling products that are completely undifferentiated, like x86 servers, why would anybody pay you for that? - Safra A. Catz
#Game
#Hardware
#Pay
#Why
#Would
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology. - Safra A. Catz
#Bar
#Education
#Science
#Technology
#Us
I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle. - Safra A. Catz
#Best
#Car
#Day
#God
#Tomorrow
If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name. - Safra A. Catz
#Business
#Dead
#Long
#Name
#New
When we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative. - Safra A. Catz
#Always
#Decide
#High
#Price
#Want
It's critical to simplify and run the business in such a way that resources are released to invest in your main business. - Safra A. Catz
#Business
#Resources
#Simplify
#Way
#Your
A core focus of our effort is based on the recognition that our customers have varying needs, and one of their most important needs is to have choice. - Safra A. Catz
#Choice
#Effort
#Focus
#Important
#Needs
The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own. - Safra A. Catz
#Advice
#Best
#Leadership
#Path
#Start
#Women
In the cloud, customers don't want a six-month contract negotiation; that concept is absurd when you can implement a cloud-based suite from beginning to end in a month or a few months. - Safra A. Catz
#Absurd
#Beginning
#End
#Few
#Negotiation
I come from Wall Street, and you'll never see me do a PowerPoint because I'm all about Excel spreadsheets. If it's not in the numbers, I don't care how strategic it is; it doesn't play out. - Safra A. Catz
#Care
#don't Care
#Me
#Numbers
#Street
Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas. - Safra A. Catz
#About
#Cloud
#Digital
#India
#Storage
Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender. - Safra A. Catz
#Achievement
#Challenges
#Future
#Gender
Let your customers be your partners; let your vendors be your employees. What's necessary in this transformation more than anything else is courage and a willingness to change. - Safra A. Catz
#Change
#Courage
#More
#Transformation
At Oracle, silver medal is first loser. - Safra A. Catz
#First
#Loser
#Medal
#Oracle
#Silver
In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business. - Safra A. Catz
#Business
#Finance
#Future
#Time
#World
I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go. - Safra A. Catz
#Business
#Focus
#Technology
#Vision
I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box. - Safra A. Catz
#Attitude
#Box
#Outside
#Seeing
#Thinking
Your experience on this site will be improved by allowing cookies.