A Quote by Larry Ellison

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

Larry Ellison

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Larry Ellison
American - Businessman
Born: August 17, 1944

Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.

Tim Brown

Not everyone is prepared for fame, not even at the level I got it. One minute you're just a face in the crowd, next minute everyone wants a piece of you.

John Cooper Clarke

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.

Matthew Ashford

If you're going to be in the business of news and telling people the truth... you've got to be honest. You've got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else.

Don Lemon

Everyone has got to be prepared and ready to play when the manager calls on you.

Ashley Young

If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.

Scott Adams

I'm not always nuts, you can't be nuts 100 per cent of the time, I don't even think I'm nuts.

Jimmy Bullard

I bought a bar because we got banned from playing everywhere else. We were too nuts, and everyone was scared of us. It was Des Moines, Iowa, remember.

Shawn Crahan

As a top manager, you have to not just reward truth-telling, you've got to beg for it, and you've got to demand that everyone around you gives you constructive criticism, constantly. You've got to get out of the bubble, so that you can get direct feedback from everybody who's being affected.

Robert Reich

The vampire bible, bound in human skin, written in blood, and full of prophecies that were never wrong. Trouble was, if you read the thing too long, it drove you nuts. Not "I'm having a bad day and feel bitchy" nuts or PMS nuts. "I think I'll commit felony assault on my friends and rape my boyfriend" nuts.

MaryJanice Davidson

It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

Margaret Atwood

Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.

Ben Bernanke

They've said 'Roseanne's nuts' for years, and now I'm going to make that a reality - I'm all about nuts now, macadamia nuts!

Roseanne Barr

Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!

Peter Drucker

I'm somebody's ex-wife, and I did things that drove him nuts. And now I'm somebody's girlfriend, for many years, and I've got different things that drive him nuts.