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Without execution, 'vision' is just another word for hallucination.

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Vision, Execution, Another, Hallucination

We have, of course, all of our Oracle technologies in our cloud. But I don't think you're going to see customers wanting to deal with 50 clouds or 40 clouds or anything like that.

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Think, Deal, Wanting, Oracle

We make a significant effort at Oracle to focus the organization on making customers successful in how they deploy Oracle technology and transform their business through IT.

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Business, Through, Making, Oracle

Oracle will continue to componentize all of its solutions so we can work in a heterogeneous environment.

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Environment, Will, Continue, Oracle

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.

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Counterproductive, Units, Essential

Most tech companies do one trick and die. If you can do two or three or four, that's where wealth gets created.

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Wealth, Die, Tech, Tech Companies

You have got to get the strategy right; you have to get the operations right - lined up from R&D out to the field.

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Operations, Field, Get, Lined

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.

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Execution, Processes, Ways, Balances

From a productivity standpoint, you're supposed to reduce headcount on par with declining revenue. If you believe the environment isn't going to improve, you should take a bigger cut to get in front of the problems.

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Cut, Reduce, Par, Standpoint

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.

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Beijing, Got, Around, Roughly

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.

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Fact, Through, Upset, Consumer

When you're a leader at any level of any scale, leaders are defined at times of crisis.

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Leader, Crisis, Times, Defined

CIOs have earned a strategic seat at the table, but now they've got to hold that seat - and the only way they can do that is to converse in the language of business value and business benefits and business outcomes that all align perfectly with the strategic agenda of the company.

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Benefits, Perfectly, Table

When I left HP, I thought about sitting it out for a while.

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Thought, Left, About, Sitting

At its core, HP has the best technologists on the planet Earth.

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Earth, Core, Planet, Planet Earth

I go all over the place. I do like the ability to go around the company at different levels to find the people that have the actual answers to the question.

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Question, Over, Actual, Levels

After formulating and communicating the right strategy and optimizing operations to execute that strategy, CEOs and other top leaders then must be able to build management teams that truly understand the big picture.

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Big, Other, Teams, Strategy

My objective with strategy is to be very repetitive, to be somewhat boring, to allow people to coalesce behind a common direction.

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Behind, Very, Allow, Strategy

In times of crisis, you just have to bear down and lean on your own instincts and your own beliefs and make decisions.

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Own, Crisis, Your, Instincts

Like it or not, at HP we are technologists, not executive compensation consultants.

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Like, Executive, Consultants, Compensation

Our job is to execute.

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Job, Our, Execute

I have to put people in the right spot so that if they execute, we win.

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People, Right, Spot, Execute

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.

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Will, Like, Built, Integration

I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and a good team.

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Career, Competing, Been, Good Company

I know only a few ways to take market share and drive new revenue. I can engineer better products and services, I can build better relationships with my customers and deliver a higher level of service, or I can give my customers a lower price.

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Products, I Can, Deliver, Customers

Customers want to talk to other customers.

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Want, Talk, Other, Customers

Executives need ample flexibility to respond to the market. That means both reducing costs and increasing innovation.

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Innovation, Market, Means, Respond

When I was at Teradata, I got called a growth guy. And then when I became C.E.O. of the whole company, I got called a cost-cutter. Then, I came to H.P. and became an operations guy.

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Guy, Became, Whole, Operations

In the pros, tennis is all about individuals. In college, it's getting individuals to make points for the team.

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College, Getting, Pros, Tennis

The fact that everything ever works perfectly together, anybody who tells you that is pulling your leg.

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Fact, Works, Perfectly, Pulling

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