35 Quotes by Andy Grove
Andy Grove was a Hungarian-American businessman and engineer who is best known for his work as the co-founder and CEO of Intel Corporation. He was born in 1936 in Hungary and survived the Holocaust before immigrating to the United States. Grove was a key figure in the development of the microprocessor and played a significant role in making Intel one of the most successful and influential companies in the world. He passed away in 2016 at the age of 79. (Bio)
Andy Grove Quotes
Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive. (Meaning)
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.
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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.
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.
How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood. (Meaning)
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.
A question that often comes up at times of strategic transformation is, should you pursue a highly focused approach, betting everything on one strategic goal, or should you hedge? ... Mark Twain hit it on the head when he said, Put all of your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.
If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.
The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.
Make mistakes faster.
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.
Only the paranoid survive.
Activity is not output.
You need to plan the way a fire department plans: it cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.
Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.
The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change
There are two options: adapt or die.
The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.
Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.
Every generation thinks that they invented sex.
The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.
Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.
No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms
There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid.
Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.
You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.
Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.
― Andy Grove Quotes
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