Mark V. Hurd Quotes

...it's the same with business. If you focus on the goal and not the process, you inevitably compromise. Businessmen who focus on profits wind up in the hole. For me, profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.

A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

Always build. If you start at fever pitch, there's nowhere to go.

Too many companies are running their business into the ground, I would argue, by being myopically short-term focused on the shareholder.

The key for us is always a multiple-year strategy, and a multiple-year strategy means great products, great customer relationships, and doing solid engineering.

Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it's a sprint.

A company can set off in one direction, figures out that it's not the right way to go, and then go in an entirely new direction. Over time, the product or service improves, and the company gets better at executing and delivering.

I think it's extremely important to think of your company as a series of chapters.

My goal is to create one of the greatest companies that's ever existed, and that has everything to do with the people, the culture, and what our core values are versus what we build or how we're perceived out in the market.

I think you have to improve every day a little bit so you don't have one day where there's a big thing coming.

People need to look beyond just the immediate victory... There are no permanent victories.

I think we operate in a very dynamic marketplace, and as such, we need to constantly innovate.

Disruption starts with committing to excellence and taking a stand for your customer.

There is still too much pressure on short-termism in terms of the drivers of success.

I have always said that, more than 'big bang' reforms, it is every day what is happening, changing on the ground.

If we're about winning world championships, we can't just have all of our focus be on the Olympics.

Even though we live in a fast-changing world with short term-ism all around, it requires years of determination to transform a company and structurally reap the rewards. Innovation companies need to set their sights on solving unmet needs - but this approach requires focus and long-term tenacity.

Over 10 years, MindTree has been ahead of most IT companies on operating and financial metrics. We have stayed true to our long-term vision and have not been buffeted by short-term.

People who look at Apple's success and think we look at it as, 'Okay, great, we're done,' don't appreciate what's really going on here.

If you can improve your franchise, even if you're doing well, you're going to make that move. You just are - at least I am. It's about winning and winning the right way and trying to sustain success over a large period of time.

Whether in services or in manufacturing, the trick is to stay ahead of the curve. I believe we should not wait to be disrupted - we should become disruptors ourselves.