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I'm old, I'm used to crummy service, I'm trained to get crummy service. To me, the fact I can get through to a call centre and then hold for 15 minutes, I don't get that upset. My kids won't. They want to know the answer to their question now. As a company you have to provide an answer to that consumer.
I've been lucky to be at companies that have been at interesting intersections at the time I've been able to run them and lead them.
In the pros, tennis is all about individuals. In college, it's getting individuals to make points for the team.
In times of crisis, you just have to bear down and lean on your own instincts and your own beliefs and make decisions.
It's counterproductive to lower my price, because I have to sell more units to make up for that lost revenue. Generating brand-new products can take a long time. Improving service is typically the quickest way that I can take market share. So aligning technology strategy to better service customers becomes an essential path to revenue growth.
It's important to know when your work is done.
It's tough to reenter the work force.
Like it or not, at HP we are technologists, not executive compensation consultants.
Most tech companies do one trick and die. If you can do two or three or four, that's where wealth gets created.
My daughter's got a smartphone in her hand with roughly the same power as a mainframe circa 1982, and she's running around Beijing and wants an answer as fast as she can.
My day starts at 4:30 A.M., and I sort of have two speeds: fast and stop.
My objective with strategy is to be very repetitive, to be somewhat boring, to allow people to coalesce behind a common direction.
Not everyone is comfortable with being pushed.
Oracle will continue to componentize all of its solutions so we can work in a heterogeneous environment.
Processes break in two ways. They break because they don't have the right checks and balances and because they don't have the right execution.
References drive the industry.
The day you feel like you've won, you need to drive out of the parking lot and not come back.
The fact that everything ever works perfectly together, anybody who tells you that is pulling your leg.
There will never be a day where the depth of integration, unless it was all built from the bottom ground up, will be integrated as any of us would like.
There's a powerful tendency to overcomplicate the whole notion of leadership.
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