Mark V. Hurd Quotes

I just come in and work and do what is required of me to do, and do it professionally.

You want to be paid. It is your job. It is like anyone else turning up at an office.

As employees, we are all given specific duties and carrying out these duties provides us with a great sense of responsibility.

A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.

At the end of the day, you have a job to do, and if you don't do your job, you're going to get fired. You just have to kind of put your head down and do it.

Well they are all working but don’t ask me what they are doing.

If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.

In broadcasting, you're pretty much married to your job.

I try not to think about it as much when I'm working, it's more just doing my job, but I realize I have more of a responsibility than probably your everyday analyst.

It is important we don't become complacent, do our job and stay professional.

I have to force myself to remember that if I can't do my job, people's stories won't get told, and that helps me to focus on the task at hand.

DoMode' is get out here and do your job and do work.

If you are elected to do a job, you are supposed to do it to the best of your ability.

In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf. Commit to taking on one of these ideas and finishing what you started.

A goal without a plan is only a dream.

The military taught me the importance of getting something done in a timely manner and the importance of completing a mission on time. My lieutenant would say, 'If you don't, you die.' In many ways, life is the same. If you don't pay attention to a timeline, you lose out on the ability to accomplish the task at hand.

You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.

We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in the last decade.

If they're going to pay me like [Mike] Gallego, I'm going to play like Gallego.

Work, finish, publish.

Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.

An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.