I'm Right, And Everyone Else Is Wrong.

Life's A Journey. It's A Journey About Discovering Limits.

If An Innovative Piece Of Software Comes Along, Microsoft Copies It And Makes It Part Of Windows. This Is Not Innovation; This Is The End Of Innovation.

I Started Netsuite. Netsuite Was My Idea. I Called Up Evan Goldberg And Said, 'we're Going To Do Erp On The Internet, Software-as-a-service.' Six Months Later Marc Benioff, Finding Out What Netsuite Was Doing, And Kind Of Copied It.

I Am Also Involved With All The Acquisitions And Overall Strategy. Now It's True, I Don't Run Operations. But I've Never Really Run Operations. I've Never Had The Endurance To Run Sales. The Whole Idea Of Selling To The Customer Just Isn't My Personality. I'm An Engineer, Tell Me Why Something Isn't Working Or Is And I Am Curious.

It's Fascinating As We Continue To Innovate And Lead The Way In Both The Application Space And The Database Space. In The Very Beginning, People Said You Couldn't Make Relational Databases Fast Enough To Be Commercially Viable. I Thought We Could, And We Were The First To Do It. But We Took Tremendous Abuse Until Ibm Said, "oh Yeah, This Stuff Is Good."