Larry Ellison On The Fear Of Failure

“I think most great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.Unless failure gets very close, that fear doesn’t reach profound levels, but it drives us. It drives me to work very hard. It drives me to make sure that my life is very orderly, that I’m in control of my company, or in control of the airplane or boat or what-have-you, so that I’m not at risk of failure. Whenever I feel even remotely close to being at risk of failure, I can’t stop working.”- Larry Ellison