Mark V. Hurd Quotes

Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.

It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution.

The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.

There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.

When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

I keep my overhead as low as I can.

My buildings are all on budget.

I really don't want the best people at the highest cost.

I liked being CEO of Blockbuster, but my job is to put it on the bottom line for shareholders.

Oftentimes, successful brands can lose discipline or become complacent over time, applying less rigor to the cost control and returns on investment.

We believe that our cost effectiveness is one of our most powerful competitive advantages in Networks, and we will not lose sight of that in the future.

Engineering is the art of managing scarcity - it's easy to design and build a massive bridge that will last forever if cost is not an issue. Similarly, to build a new company, you must manage scarce resources.

I continue to be a believer in a standard-based industry, where your lean cost structure is a huge advantage.

We have never considered any costs as fixed. Therefore we first reduce the price to a point where we believe more sales will result. Then we go ahead and try to make the price. We do not bother about the costs. The new price forces the cost down.

The rigor and discipline we use in running our business is key to consistently executing our growth strategy. And we systematically applied the same discipline to our investments, including acquisitions.

As board members, we only meet infrequently and are not as engaged with the front line, necessarily. The first thing I did as CEO was I left this board room.

It is incredibly fun to run a company like AMD.

I have voted to repeal the president's health care law and will continue to advocate for its repeal. Additionally, I will push for critical reforms that focus on controlling costs and empowering patients within the health care system.

If you want to grow a business, you want to make profit. Only then it is good business.

You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.

What I'm good at is making sure we have the best resources, the best talent, the best marketing, and the best access to distribution.

There's always a concern over budget with film too but people are more extravagant when they're making a feature. In television everything's tight, everything's paired down and it's just a question of making it look expensive.

Almost all decisions based on cost accounting are utterly wrong.

Somebody once told me - and I could be wrong about this - that The West Wing was, on any given episode, $300,000 over, on average. Now today, if you were $10,000 over budget, they would cancel you. For sure.

When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?