Mark Hurd
American businessman, philanthropist and CEO of Oracle (1957–2019)
Mark Vincent Hurd (born January 1, 1957) is CEO of Oracle Corporation and serves on the board of directors.
Quotes
edit- My days at Baylor were not too different from my days as part of a company. I had to manage my time. I had to divide it into certain pieces so that I’d get as much done as I possibly could. And I had to have the discipline to stay focused on the most important things that needed to get done.
- Interview with Baylor Business Review: "Q & A with Mark Hurd" (Fall 2006)
- Leading is not just about managing people. To lead, you have to help people understand where we’re trying to take the company and what their role is in getting it there.
- Interview with Baylor Business Review: "Q & A with Mark Hurd" (Fall 2006)
- There are unique opportunities for differentiating yourself from competition. By the way, they don’t come along every day. And usually, they show up in a crisis.
- Interview with Forbes: "Oracle's Mark Hurd: Innovation, Savings Make Cloud Transition 'Inevitable'" (15 September 2016)
- Our job is to get customers in a position where they’re the most efficient and effective they can be.
- Interview with Recode: "Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd on Recode Decode" (05 July 2017)
- We should not get scared about innovation. It makes us more efficient and frees up capital for our customers to reinvest in other things.
- Interview with Recode: "Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd on Recode Decode" (05 July 2017)
- AI and its offshoot, machine learning, will be a foundational tool for creating social good as well as business success.
- LinkedIn article (27 December 2017)
- Remember what’s bigger, to me, about the cloud isn’t so much the technology. It’s just as much about the business model. It’s just about what the customer needs to do to enable their business.
- Diginomica: "Oracle CEO Mark Hurd on the looming transformation of enterprise IT" (11 January 2018)
Quotes about Hurd
edit- Every time we threw Mark out the window he landed on his feet. So we moved him up a floor, and he landed on his feet again.
- Gilbert Williamson in Fortune: "Mark Hurd's moment" (27 February 2009)
- He's all about execution and has an uncanny ability to get things done.
- Keith Bachman in Fortune: "Mark Hurd's moment" (27 February 2009)
- I interviewed a lot of people in that search. Mark just blew everybody else out of the water.
- Tom Perkins in Fortune: "Mark Hurd's moment" (27 February 2009)
