A Quote by Mark V. Hurd

My day starts at 4:30 A.M., and I sort of have two speeds: fast and stop. — © Mark V. Hurd
My day starts at 4:30 A.M., and I sort of have two speeds: fast and stop.
My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.
I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it.
My morning starts with some form of exercise, and I give two hours - from 5:30 to 7:30 A.M. - to my personal fitness.
A standard day usually starts very early - 4.30 A.M. pick-ups and in the make-up chair by 5.30.
My day starts at 5 A.M. and gets over at 10:30 P.M. Its a long day but I love it... I can't sit idle.
I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
When I work there are two distinct phases: the phase of pushing the work along, getting something to happen, where all the input comes from me, and phase two, where things start to combine in a way that wasn't expected or predicted by what I supplied. Once phase two begins everything is okay, because then the work starts to dictate its own terms. It starts to get an identity which demands certain future moves. But during the first phase you often find that you come to a full stop.
The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Think of a world where there is no ride-sharing; people are driving themselves to work. You now have 30 people being served by 30 cars. Those 30 cars are only served 4% of the day; 96% of the day, they're stored somewhere. Around 20% to 30% of our land is taken up just storing these hunks of metal that we drive around in for 4% of the day.
I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.
People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought - the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work - our brains just can't think that fast. At a certain point, you're going on automatic.
If you like, there is a Guinness time. The reason for that it's fundamental. It is not that we have to keep shortening the time. It turns out all molecular and biological systems have speeds of the atoms move inside them, the fastest possible speeds are determined by their molecular vibrations and this speeds is about a kilometre per second.
And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels is when the season starts.
And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing.
It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.
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