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What is the biggest professional obstacle you have faced?

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The American Academy of Achievement, to its honourees, its oral-history interviews

The Academy of Achievement repeatedly asks honorees to identify a major professional obstacle or challenge and describe confronting it.

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Larry Ellison American businessman
There were lots of times, especially in the early days, that were very, very difficult. I think the most difficult experience I had was in 1990 when Oracle had its only loss quarter in history. We’d been in business for 20 years, and after 20 years we lost money one quarter. We had a very difficult time. We had virtually doubled our sales every year for ten years. Nine out of ten years, ten out of eleven years. It was really quite an amazing run. We were the fastest growing company in history
Recorded Academy of Achievement, Academy of Achievement interview, San Francisco, California, 1 May 1997 source ↗

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