Mark V. Hurd Quotes

Mark V. Hurd — American Businessman

Mark Vincent Hurd is co-CEO of Oracle Corporation, and the past chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Hewlett-Packard. At Hewlett-Packard, Hurd succeeded CFO Robert Wayman, who served as interim CEO from February 10, 2005 to March 28, 2005, after former CEO Carly Fiorina was forced by the board to resign. On September 22, 2006, Hurd succeeded Pat Dunn as chairman after she resigned after the pretexting controversy. Hurd resigned his positions at HP on August 6, 2010, following an investigation into a claim of sexual harassment made by a former reality TV actress. The probe concluded that the company's sexual-harassment policy was not violated, but that its standards of business conduct were... (wikipedia)

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

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

Our job is to execute.