If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.
If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.

Similar Larry Ellison quotes:
Other Innovation Quotes :
- The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.
- Innovation is to connect the dots – synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.
- When you know the destination, the path is easy.
- stop looking to the competition. Value-innovate and let the competition worry about you.
- The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but building on the new.
- When haters start to rear their ugly head, just play around with them and throw them a bone so they can go away and chew on it.
- Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
- Most new ideas and new inventions are disjointed ideas merged.
- There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.
- A business shines brightest when its people are working on problems bigger than themselves
- We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- Life is made up of dots you just have to know how to connect them.
- Never fear starting. Fear never starting.
- Self-discipline coupled with passion and innovation will get you far in this world.
- If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more ‘unique.
- We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
- Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.
- You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.
- Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.
- Innovation is taking two things that exist and putting them together in a new way.