Safra A. Catz

We want to nurture startups on our platform, just like we did in the old world.

Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.

We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.

Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

Managers used to say, 'I have a gut feeling.' Do you know what a gut feeling is for a professional manager? It's a pattern that they recognize. But if your system can recognize that pattern, if it's not just a couple of managers who know that pattern, then the system's gut feeling can tell you which way to go. That's really liberating.

What happened in the past can help you know what's going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level of intelligence not just to sales and marketing but to ERP, where you can save more money in procurement or figure out whether the people you recruit are going to be successful in your organization.

It's critical to simplify and run the business in such a way that resources are released to invest in your main business.

I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.

A core focus of our effort is based on the recognition that our customers have varying needs, and one of their most important needs is to have choice.

Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.

Common sense will always prevail. America will advance the agenda for the greatest minds.

The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.

Whether you're a government entity, a large enterprise, or a startup, a true digital transformation takes advantage of technology to focus on the customer, automates work that does not need manual interference, and unleashes your people to truly make decisions that change the path of your company.

As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.

The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.

Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.

There are so many immigrant-led success stories in the United States, and the fact that it's gotten so much harder for educated folks to stay here is really unfortunate.

First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.

Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It's just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.

Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas.