Larry Ellison ($200B Net Worth)

My standard advice to entrepreneurs is you can't be successful as a small company doing the same thing everyone else is doing. So long time ago, I was talking to Michael Dell, right at the beginning of the PC era, and I said, there must be 100 PC companies. And Michael said, no Larry, there are a thousand PC companies. And I said, that makes no sense to me. You know, of actual PC companies, his was the only survivor. Now Apple, you call it a PC company, I don't think it's a little bit different. And Microsoft, Intel, if you're an entrepreneur, you have to find errors in conventional wisdom. You have to find where everyone says when you tell them your idea, most people say you're crazy. You love it. And everyone says, no one's doing that. No one's doing that, you're crazy. There are two possibilities. One is you're first with a really good idea. Unfortunately, the other is you're crazy. When you hear that, no one's doing that. Crazy. There are two possibilities. One is you're first with a really good idea. Unfortunately, the other is you're crazy.