At 80, Oracle's founder – one of the world's wealthiest executives and an eccentric figurehead of the 2000s – has returned to ...

Making things personal is how Ellison achieves his goals, according to Mike Wilson, author of a 1997 biography whose title, “The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison,” plays off a joke ...

Mike Wilson, author of another biography, “The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison” (Harper Perennial 1997), told Forbes of a conversation he had ...

When most people write about Larry Ellison, they tend to focus on his wealth, and his pugnacious attitude. He is the world's fifth richest man, and his motto for life comes from Genghis Khan ...

The last time Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison visited The Chronicle was in late 2003, when the Redwood City software giant was waging a bitter takeover campaign against rival PeopleSoft Inc. Oracle ...

Larry Ellison, one of the richest people in the world, hopes he doesn’t waste his billions. “Good motives are rarely enough,” Ellison writes on the website of his charitable foundation ...

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison saw his personal fortune reach $243 billion on Thursday thanks to an over $26 billion jump, making him the world's second-richest person.