Mark V. Hurd Quotes

I think you should never really feel like you've 'made it.'

Heard someone say, 'I can't wait until I can finally say I've made it.' The day you think you've 'made it' is the day you begin your decline.

I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.

Even if we had the No. 1 video on MTV, and we had money and everything else, I think we'd always have more to do. I don't ever want to wake up in the morning and say, 'What are we gonna do today?' I'm afraid of that. I don't ever want to wake up and feel like we've conquered.

In periods when everything was going really well I may have taken my foot off the pedal and got comfortable where I was at, not carrying on to the next level.

If a person is too 'satisfied', then he might become complacent, not work so hard to get ahead.

I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you've already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.

I'm always moving forward.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

I have moved on. I have moved forward.

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

Many Czech people are very talented. They can do many things, but when they get to a certain level, they are satisfied. I am not like that, thank God.

If you have a success in your life, why can't we hold on to that? Why can't that be good enough for a lifetime; why do we always have to be ramping up?

Even though I've had the body of work I've had, and the success I've had, I do not rest on my laurels whatsoever.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.