Mark V. Hurd Quotes

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.

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• Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Women
  • Say
  • Feminist

• We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Pain

• They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Life
  • Enough
  • Enjoy

• The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Starting

• An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • American
  • Want
  • Attitude

• I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Yourself

• I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Love
  • Word
  • Written

• But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Work
  • Day

• Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Quality
  • Used
  • Decade

• When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Truth
  • Balance
  • Kindness

• Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Country
  • America
  • Yourself

• I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

  

  Larry David
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Guy

• Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Life
  • Great
  • Enjoy Life

• I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Child
  • Understand
  • Parent

• We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Find
  • System
  • Solar

• Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Family
  • Society
  • Christian

• Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

  

  Larry Page
  • Time
  • Future
  • Succeed

• The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.

  

  Larry Page
  • Work
  • Job
  • Me

• In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.

  

  Michael Berryman
  • Matter
  • Honesty
  • Subjects

• To win a truly great life for the people of Israel, a great peace is necessary, not a fictitious peace, the dwarfish peace that is no more than a feeble intermission, but a true peace with the neighboring peoples, which alone can render possible a common development of this portion of the earth as the vanguard of the awakening Near East.

  

  Martin Buber
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• What is this gallery? Why should she have a gallery of things done by us?

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Done
  • Why
  • She

• Morally it was wrong to do so in this situation and certainly misleading to the officer...

  

  Bruce Bartlett
  • Situation
  • Officer
  • Morally

• It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
  • Up

• 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