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"When I get whatever I've set my heart on - whether it is a mandate we must win or a person I wish to hire"

"I am a people person. So whenever I engage, whether it’s a client or my own team, for me it’s not just about the work or task at hand. It is about knowing the person and what drives him"

"Win. Win. Win. I have a huge passion to win. I feel we tend to make excuses because we haven’t set our mind to win. Whatever it is that you do in life, you need to be in the top three"

"The disinvestment boom is not on her front burner. I have a clear focus on the bottom line"

"That is exactly what power means to me - getting things done"

"We are using the strength of our global platform, and what we do in Services and other areas, to propel the relationship into the boardroom"

"We will invest in our infrastructure, risk management and controls to ensure that we operate in a safe and sound manner and serve our clients and customers with excellence"

"We are not done and we’ve still got a way to go. There is no victory being declared, but there is very clear, demonstrable progress"

"That was a game-changing piece of advice for me, because then I started doing completely different jobs and ones that weren't necessarily logical to most people's thinking"

"The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can’t see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own"

"Today, Oracle is recognized as the cloud of choice for both AI training and inferencing. I'm very proud of that"

"Our folk here are not shy about telling you what you need to do when you ask them"

"There was a lot of pride in some of these retail businesses and it has been hard to let go of them from a cultural point of view"

"There are a lot more things coming off the to-do list than getting added to it. We can see it delivering better outcomes and starting to improve efficiency. There’s been a huge lift done, but now we’re in the phase when you’re starting to get things closed"

"That philosophy very much guided me to start thinking what are the things that would equip me better for a more senior role further down the path"

"Many of them learned that lesson during COVID,” Catz said, “but were afraid, to some extent, to move all the way in. So they started in one place, and now they’ve built that confidence and they’re going to go all the way"

"Think about it: in the shopping world, we’ve been in the 21st century for a long time–they’re always recommending that next thing you should buy. But in healthcare? Nope! It’s still stuck in typing all the data into the system like the old days"

"More and more of our customers are not only moving into the infrastructure cloud, not only the database cloud, not even only the applications cloud, but even the vertical applications cloud"

"“I encourage you to also think very, very carefully when you’re making an investment decision that in fact that decision is really a need you’re filling that you believe in. Don’t just go with everybody else. Don’t just watch a PowerPoint like a dog watching television. Make sure it makes sense…The focus needs to be where you can add competitive value to your customer and have competitive advantage"

"Sometimes you have to take some blame for something that’s happened in the past and say, I was wrong. That was a mistake. And maybe it’s not you, but it’s your company, which means you’re responsible. I’ll say, Okay, if that’s what we did, I’m sorry about that. Let me see how to make that right"

"There is some crazy pressure on women, and on men, to almost be superwoman or superman, and that's just not realistic"

"Don't try and achieve everything at the same time and put so much pressure on yourself"

"We have signed significant cloud contracts with the who's who of AI, including OpenAI, xAI, Meta, Nvidia, AMD, and many others"

"Our employees have then rewarded us incredibly because, secure in that and knowing that they were going to be okay, then meant that they would focus on our clients and look after them too"

"I knew it was going to be multiple years and I knew I had to get a move on: to be bold around it and take tough decisions that hadn’t been made before, and to make investments that were going to be hard for the bottom line for a couple of years but would then bear fruit"

"Having experience of different parts of the bank gives you a lot of courage and conviction, to get clarity quickly about what needs to be done and stick to the plan, even if it’s difficult"

"In fact, anytime you stop, your competitors are going to pass you"

"We’ve taken some pretty tough talent calls, says Fraser. If someone was a strong performer, but their job had gone away in the reorg, we would put them into a job that someone else had"

"That’s expensive and thankless work until it’s done, and then it’s joyful"

"If you move from 20 different ways of doing something to one, that reduces the risk of something going wrong enormously. Then you make sure that the process around that makes sense, end to end: making sure it isn’t convoluted and complex. You put in all your controls, both preventive, and detective. You try and make as many of them automated as possible, and then you test them constantly to make sure they’re working. That is the deeply unsexy but very important work we have been doing"

"And by the way, this is true not only in companies — whole civilizations survive or disappear because of whether they’re adaptable to new conditions and new capabilities, and those that really take advantage of them are going to prosper"

"Oracle's technology and business have never been stronger. And our breathtaking growth rate points to an even more prosperous future. At this time of strength is the right moment to pass the CEO role to the next generation of capable executives. Congratulations Clay and Mike"

"Clearly, we had an amazing start to the year because Oracle has become the go-to place for AI workloads"

"And one of the reasons that businesses succeed is when they’re adaptable and when they’re absorbing those new technologies. But those that sort of stick with what they have? They get passed over"

"Anyone who goes to the hospital or a doctor, you see that — as great as our physicians are and our nurses are and the equipment, it’s all amazing — there are still a lot of doctors typing into things and spending a lot of their time doing that instead of spending the time with the patient"

"But now we can offer a complete system that just listens to that entire interaction and records it and transcribes it and gives recommendations to the physicians — what an incredible time saver! Instead of having doctors spend time putting data into the system, you actually have the system help the physicians figure out what’s best for you"

"And that has been a real passion for the whole company, and we’ve put a lot of energy into it and I think a lot of our employees are very excited about being part of it because as much as we love to make shopping more efficient, or running a giant utility more efficient — and all of that is very important, just like helping a bank be better and more efficient — but when you’re in healthcare, you’re actually saving lives"

"The reality is that industrial companies and governments and other types of large organizations are all realizing that they cannot waste resources. They have to use all of their resources to drive a better customer experience, better employee experience, and better supplier experience"

"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. That ultimately brought me to Oracle"

"I come from Wall Street, and you’ll never see me do a PowerPoint because I’m all about Excel spreadsheets…If it’s not in the numbers, I don’t care how strategic it is, it doesn’t play out"

"Unfortunately there’s no easy way to get there…Of course, time is money. But that’s the way to go – hard work, focus, and specialization, and then no one can catch you"

"There’s an expectation that when you become a senior executive that you got there in part because you’re really listening. It’s very, very important to listen to your customers. They’re it. They’re doing you a favor by telling you what they think and you can’t get to this position without listening to the issues and engaging in creative problem solving, because that’s what this is really about"

"The biggest challenge for the next generation of women is to turn these generational expectations on their ear. Hopefully in the future generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender"

"The most important thing is to understand the goals and issues of the customers and work through them. Often hard work can solve most problems as well as some real willingness to try"

"The advice to everyone is, you can have it all, but don't expect to have it at exactly the same time"

"Your career is going to be measured in decades, and you'll probably have many careers in your life, so make sure that you really enjoy each period of your life and make the most of it"

"Transforming yourself and modernizing yourself — that’s not a destination, it’s a constant journey"

"You want to make a transition like this when things are great"

"We've been in the midsts of a health crisis, and if we didn't put our people's health and safety first and understand what's going on in their lives, honestly, I think we would have done a very poor job managing the bank through the crisis"

"And today we’re seeing that. We’re seeing this incredible prosperity and improvement in productivity, in capability, in really meeting customer expectations and exceeding them. And that’s what we’re pushing forward with"