Mark Hurd Quotations

We're going to go get aggressive in the marketplace. We put a lot into this, and we've got a lot more coming.

We have to grow our company, invest and deal with competitive forces at the same time we need to be efficient on the cost side,

Lew cared deeply for HP and its people, and his loss is being felt widely across our company, ... He was a natural leader who was enormously well liked and made an enduring impression on those he encountered. The way he treated people and how he ran the company set an exceptionally high standard of personal decency.

Lew cared deeply for H-P and its people, and his loss is being felt widely across our company. He was a natural leader who was enormously well liked and made an enduring impression on those he encountered.

Lew cared deeply about HP and its people, and his loss is being felt widely across our company,

For us, we have a tremendous asset in the customer base, ... We haven't done as good a job as I think we can at understanding the aggregate customer business.

He was a natural leader who was enormously well liked. The way he treated people and how he ran the company set an exceptionally high standard of personal decency.

He was a natural leader who was enormously well-liked and made an enduring impression on those he encountered. The way he treated people and how he ran the company set an exceptionally high standard of personal decency.

We're not working on spinning off any part of the business. They give good leverage points across the company, which are of value.

We look at the channel as a strategic advantage and not a strategic problem, We need you. We can't get to every buying point. And even when we get to every buying point, we can't bring every solution. We need your help.

I think you'll see us trying to be more precision-oriented in terms of who we partner with,

Results have been inconsistent. The stock has been volatile, if not disappointing.

We've got some looseness in our structures and our processes, ... We have to get away from managing and reporting to leading and driving.

We have to make sure that we can show up with products that are deliverable against that framework, and I think we can do a better job with that.

We are continuing to deliver on our plan to strengthen HP and better serve our customers. Growth was balanced across most of our businesses and geographies, cash flow was strong and we were disciplined in controlling costs. While hard work remains ahead of us, our efforts are starting to show results.

We're trying to put more energy into our relationship. If you're a customer, the key message I want to you hear is you can sleep well tonight, knowing you've got tremendous energy, power and investment behind this.

There is a lot of hope in the company,

We've got a lot of stuff to go work on. You may not always like what we say ... but we will work exceedingly hard to deliver on commitments we set.

You have all of our commitment to making HP an easier company to deal with,

double down in markets where we want to lead.

The way he treated people and how he ran the company set an exceptionally high standard of personal decency.

After a thorough review of our business, we have formulated a plan that will enable HP to begin delivering its full potential. We can perform better, for our customers and partners, our employees and our shareholders, and we will.

It wasn't what I would like it to be. I think we were spending a lot of money. We were building an architecture that was complicated. We had fragmented information.

You talk about problems but there are a bunch of opportunities at the same time, ... I want to get underneath every piece of the business and will be focused on doing my best to optimize each part.

The better you perform, the more money you make. I won't tell you everybody's loved it.

I'm aware of competition and have seen questions about strategy, structure and consistency. But I also see the potential with these businesses,

I do believe these market trends are going to happen, regardless of Hewlett Packard. Time will tell whether we're capable of executing on the opportunity.