Andy Grove quotes

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. (Andy Grove)
Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers. View quote
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A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done. View quote
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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers. View quote
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Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad? View quote
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them. View quote
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I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly. View quote
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A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation. View quote
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You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die. View quote
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The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change. View quote
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Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age. (Andy Grove)
Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos. View quote
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All of us in business have a responsibility to maintain the industrial base on which we depend and the society whose adaptability - and stability - we may have taken for granted. View quote
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I couldn't afford luxuries like embarrassment. View quote
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The personal computer... went to individuals first before it went to corporations... The corporations are sitting, wishing this whole friggin' thing [Electric cars] to go away. Which is exactly what the computer companies' attitude was to personal computers. View quote
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There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline. View quote
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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster. View quote
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Only the paranoid survive. View quote
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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one. View quote
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It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work. View quote
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Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution. (Andy Grove)
Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed. View quote
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If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry. View quote
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Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. View quote
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Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority. View quote
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