Quotes from Mark V. Hurd

The day you feel like you've won, you need to drive out of the parking lot and not come back.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.

The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.

We have, of course, all of our Oracle technologies in our cloud. But I don't think you're going to see customers wanting to deal with 50 clouds or 40 clouds or anything like that.

CEOs can stay too long.

I know only a few ways to take market share and drive new revenue. I can engineer better products and services, I can build better relationships with my customers and deliver a higher level of service, or I can give my customers a lower price.

At its core, HP has the best technologists on the planet Earth.

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.

There's money in the old stuff, but there's more wealth created in the new growth areas.

Most tech companies do one trick and die. If you can do two or three or four, that's where wealth gets created.

Like it or not, at HP we are technologists, not executive compensation consultants.

Customers want to talk to other customers.

When you're a leader at any level of any scale, leaders are defined at times of crisis.

After formulating and communicating the right strategy and optimizing operations to execute that strategy, CEOs and other top leaders then must be able to build management teams that truly understand the big picture.

Processes break in two ways. They break because they don't have the right checks and balances and because they don't have the right execution.

I like being part of teams that go into things that people don't think are doing very well and getting into them to do better.

The fact that everything ever works perfectly together, anybody who tells you that is pulling your leg.

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

In the pros, tennis is all about individuals. In college, it's getting individuals to make points for the team.

Not everyone is comfortable with being pushed.

I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and a good team.

Without execution, 'vision' is just another word for hallucination.

I like to have a team environment where I can go anywhere and not threaten management.

For the most part, earnings and market value growth are a result of reduced expenses.