Mark V. Hurd Quotes.
Oracle will continue to componentize all of its solutions so we can work in a heterogeneous environment.
At its core, HP has the best technologists on the planet Earth.
References drive the industry.
We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.
From a productivity standpoint, you’re supposed to reduce headcount on par with declining revenue. If you believe the environment isn’t going to improve, you should take a bigger cut to get in front of the problems.
There’s money in the old stuff, but there’s more wealth created in the new growth areas.
CIOs have earned a strategic seat at the table, but now they’ve got to hold that seat – and the only way they can do that is to converse in the language of business value and business benefits and business outcomes that all align perfectly with the strategic agenda of the company.
When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.
Customers want to talk to other customers.
I really don’t want the best people at the highest cost.
My day starts at 4:30 A.M., and I sort of have two speeds: fast and stop.
The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.
For the most part, earnings and market value growth are a result of reduced expenses.
My daughter’s got a smartphone in her hand with roughly the same power as a mainframe circa 1982, and she’s running around Beijing and wants an answer as fast as she can.
When I was at Teradata, I got called a growth guy. And then when I became C.E.O. of the whole company, I got called a cost-cutter. Then, I came to H.P. and became an operations guy.
I like to have a team environment where I can go anywhere and not threaten management.
In the pros, tennis is all about individuals. In college, it’s getting individuals to make points for the team.
There’s a powerful tendency to overcomplicate the whole notion of leadership.
Like it or not, at HP we are technologists, not executive compensation consultants.
The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show youre a great performer.
I go all over the place. I do like the ability to go around the company at different levels to find the people that have the actual answers to the question.
The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you’re a great performer.
I’ve been lucky to be at companies that have been at interesting intersections at the time I’ve been able to run them and lead them.
CIOs have to be able to lay out a clear path in concert with the business leader – I used to make the business guy responsible for the apps and force them to answer the question of why they feel they need non-standard apps when they know that’s how the costs skyrocket.
I grew up in New York City, and I moved to Florida in high school.
When you’re a leader at any level of any scale, leaders are defined at times of crisis.
Everyone wants to lead when things are going well.
Not everyone is comfortable with being pushed.
Cloud represents the maturation of the IT industry.
There will never be a day where the depth of integration, unless it was all built from the bottom ground up, will be integrated as any of us would like.
