Safra Catz Quotes

#1. Gamache in anger. "He knew that's

Louise Penny

#2. If the three brothers all ride horses, there are six animals and eighteen legs involved: that is true rationalism, and fairyland is full of it.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.

Safra A. Catz

#4. Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

Richard C. Armitage

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

Clifford Sifton

#8. 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

#9. My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.

Safra A. Catz

#10. My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

Safra A. Catz

#11. What good is a reputation not put to good use.

Albert Einstein

#12. Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.

Safra A. Catz

#13. I've gone to readings to see authors after meeting them on Twitter. And while there, I've found myself sitting next to still more writers who I met on Twitter, too.

John Searles