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Mark V. Hurd Quotes

Cloud represents the maturation of the IT industry.

– Mark V. Hurd

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.

– Mark V. Hurd

Our job is to execute.

– Mark V. Hurd

It’s tough to reenter the work force.

– Mark V. Hurd

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

– Mark V. Hurd

To be very blunt, I am not really that concerned with what labels get associated with somebody.

– Mark V. Hurd

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

– Mark V. Hurd

CEOs can stay too long.

– Mark V. Hurd

It’s important to know when your work is done.

– Mark V. Hurd

Oracle will continue to componentize all of its solutions so we can work in a heterogeneous environment.

– Mark V. Hurd

We make a significant effort at Oracle to focus the organization on making customers successful in how they deploy Oracle technology and transform their business through IT.

– Mark V. Hurd

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

– Mark V. Hurd

I grew up in New York City, and I moved to Florida in high school.

– Mark V. Hurd

Without execution, ‘vision’ is just another word for hallucination.

– Mark V. Hurd

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.

– Mark V. Hurd

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.

– Mark V. Hurd

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

– Mark V. Hurd

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

– Mark V. Hurd

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

– Mark V. Hurd

My day starts at 4:30 A.M., and I sort of have two speeds: fast and stop.

– Mark V. Hurd

When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.

– Mark V. Hurd

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.

– Mark V. Hurd

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