59 Quotes by Mark V. Hurd

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

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.

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

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.

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

You have got to get the strategy right; you have to get the operations right - lined up from R&D out to the field.

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

There's a powerful tendency to overcomplicate the whole notion of leadership.

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.