Mark V. Hurd Quotes

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

Mark V. Hurd

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• There's a lot more to me than just power.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Power
  • Me
  • More

• I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• Let us advance science to create a better world for all.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Science
  • Better

• I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Marriage
  • Process

• If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Party
  • Government
  • Feel

• The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Battle

• As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Carpenter
  • Mentioned

• These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Community

• I can never find the right bras.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Never
  • Find
  • I Can

• The first wealth is health.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Health
  • First
  • Wealth

• Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Attention
  • Boys
  • Dating

• The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Stupid
  • Realize
  • Brains

• In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Life
  • Love
  • Art

• Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • You
  • Focus
  • Customers

• There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Universe
  • Blind

• My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.

  

  Valerie June
  • Fun
  • Style
  • Ugly

• A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• At the end of the day, if you are in Aljunied, ask yourself: Do you want one MP, one Non-Constituency MP, one celebrity who has been away 30 years, and two unknowns to look after you? Or would you prefer me and my hand-picked colleagues?

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Hand
  • Celebrity

• People who live in hermit states like North Korea, Burma, and Cuba already suffer from global isolation. Fed on a diet of propaganda, they don't know what's happening inside their borders or outside of them. By increasing their seclusion, sanctions make it easier for dictators to blame external enemies for a country's suffering.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • People
  • Live
  • Country

• The biggest part of our business has always been moving things, not paper. With the Internet, people in Mississippi can buy things from Macedonia, without regard to time or place or quantity.

  

  Frederick W. Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• The disciples realized that they too were his enemies, and that he had overcome them by his love. It is this that opens the disciple’s eyes, and enables him to see his enemy as a brother.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Eyes
  • Brother
  • Enemy

• I didn't have any idea that I would be able to have a career in film.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Career

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

  

  Mark V. Hurd