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 badbeebright Change image and share on social
The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer. Safra A. Catz businesscompetitordepth Change image and share on social
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 businessclouddead Change image and share on social
The way deals are done, every idea is looked at 50 different ways. Now, the market continues to change all the time. And we are always looking at everything in evaluating how it fits with our strategy. Safra A. Catz changecontinuedeal share on social
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 completelydifferentiationgame Change image and share on social
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 buycarceo Change image and share on social
It is not a coincidence that Fusion middleware and applications have the same name. We knew what we needed it to be. Safra A. Catz applicationcoincidencefusion Change image and share on social
Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender. Safra A. Catz achievementchallengefuture Change image and share on social
At Oracle, silver medal is first loser. Safra A. Catz losermedaloracle Change image and share on social
We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us. Safra A. Catz bigcompanycompetitor Change image and share on social
