Mark V. Hurd Quotes

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

You are on the ground. You see the needs of the situation, and I shall back up whatever you do.

I always tried to align myself with strategic partners, friends, and information to help me with the things that I did not know, and ultimately, I made it.

I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

We allow people to be creative. We set a direction, we set the vision, we set the strategy, but within that framework, we allow our people to be as creative as they want to be.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

In the future, I think it's pretty plausible that collective intelligence tools and skills will be important in order to be a part of global dialog, global business, and global creativity. People who know how to negotiate collective intelligence networks are going to be in a good position to contribute to global society.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

Every person who ever had a plan to do anything, and went and did it, or who laid his plan before others, and won their co-operation to do it with him, without going to external authorities to please do the thing for them, was a direct actionist.

The more choices you have--the more options you have, the better off you are.

People are always like, 'It must be so hard for you, not to be able to leave your house. I'm like, 'No, I go where I want and do whatever I want all the time.' 'No, you walk down the street?' 'Yeah, I do all the time.' 'Really?' 'Yeah, all the time.'

People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

If you have no road map, you have to create your own.

The more tools I have, the more freedom I have.

The route may, say, go across the field for 22 yards. I know I have to be there, but how I get there is where they allow me to be creative.

The opening of the Frontier is not an engineering problem. It is not a money problem. It is a challenge to our ability to decide to make it happen and to think and act the right way to get the results we want, we need, we demand.

I need to have a great deal of control and the ability to share my control with my collaborators and grant them the freedom and the quality of work I think these people deserve. If I don't have those elements, I walk away.

I encourage people to be floaters: don't stay in one group for too long.

Innovation actually demands freedom and freedom demands innovation.

Mobile devices have given us greater freedom and flexibility than ever before, while social platforms help us collaborate more effectively.

I'm very lucky to have been given a lot of freedom in my career, but it's also fun to play in other people's playgrounds!

Whenever you need something from someone else before you can move forward, it's a dependency. We believe dependencies slow people down. We want people to be more independent, because that will keep them moving forward.