"The first thing [in credit] is character … before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it.… A man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom. I think that is the fundamental basis of business."

"If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it."

"the great fathers Jefferson, Lincoln and Jackson had given way to Carnegie, Morgan and DuPont."

"It will fluctuate."

"I owe the public nothing."

"What J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller were to the Age of Robber Barons, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett, as well as digital moguls like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are to the contemporary age of the rule of the 1%. Then as now, the super-rich used governments to write laws and rules to allow them to accumulate unlimited wealth; then as now, creating monopolies by enclosing the commons and killing competition is the strategy for becoming the 1%."

"Being human is overrated."

"Could we possibly have a nominee who hasn't won any of the significant states -- outside of Illinois? That raises some serious questions about Senator Obama."

"You know, winning Democratic primaries is not a qualification, or a sign, of who can win the general election. If it were, every nominee would win, because every nominee wins Democratic primaries."

"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on."

"I had all the disadvantages necessary for success."

"If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it – a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all – you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. … We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source."

"Twenty minutes compared to never, that's a lot. Our customer, the Central Intelligence Agency, would get very upset [if] somebody looks in their database."

"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?"

"It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead"

"I hate the PC, with a passion."

"If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden."

"Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales."

"Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure."

"When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure, I wanted to make a living. I certainly never expected to become rich, certainly not this rich. I mean, rich does not even describe this. This is surreal."

"So remember this graduates: when people start saying you're crazy, you just might be on to the most important innovation of your life."

"The doctors said they've never seen a body kill the Coronavirus like my body. They tested my DNA and it wasn't DNA. It was USA."

"People are dying today that have never died before."

"My blood IS the vaccine!!!!!"

"The harder I work, the luckier I get."

"If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific."

"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die."

"Name one country run by a black person that's not a shithole... Name one city."

"[B]lack people are too stupid to vote for me."

"Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers .. suckers .. Who were the good guys in this war?"

"Why do we want all these people from Africa here? They're shithole countries ... We should have more people from Norway."

"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?"

"Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out."

"I have a really high IQ, Phil. I mean, c'mon. It's impossible for me to not be atheist."

"These people should be executed. They are scumbags."

"A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday – and may every day be another wonderful secret."

"Do you still like having sex with your wife? How often? You must have had a better fuck than your wife? Tell me about it. I have girls coming in from Los Angeles at three o'clock. We can go upstairs and have a great time. I promise."

"We have certain things in common, Jeffrey."

"You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil!"

"Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?"

"I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go."

"This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever."

"You know, when I didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. You gotta understand, I don't care. Norway has lost so credible. I stopped 8 wars,"

"He’s got the best genes I think of any human being I've ever known. He's my son. Don Trump. My son's got the greatest genes in history. I’m a big believer in genes, by the way."

"You can ask me anything you want. You can talk sex, whatever the hell you want. I'm here for you."

"I can’t say what we’re going to do because if I did, I wouldn’t be sitting here for long. They’d probably — what is it called? The 25th Amendment? — They’d institute the 25th Amendment."

"We don’t need the Hormuz Strait. We don’t need it. We don’t need it at all. We don’t ― we have so much oil. Our country is not affected by this."

"I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better. I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success."

"To be honest with you, my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran, but some stupid people back in the US say: ‘Why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people."