Andy Grove Quotes

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.

Andy Grove

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• It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Movie
  • Monster
  • Supernatural

• I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Think
  • Science
  • Mistake

• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
  • Television

• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Question

• If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Game
  • Win
  • Problems

• I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Guy
  • Turning
  • Hammer

• Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Listening

• You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • True
  • Know
  • Brand

• I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.

  

  OMI
  • Looking
  • Looking Forward

• One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.

  

  Iman
  • Science
  • Political
  • Name

• I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Love
  • Amazing
  • Director

• I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Daughter
  • Editor

• One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Driving

• We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • New
  • Old
  • Seek

• And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Question
  • Big
  • Soviet

• I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Long
  • Money
  • Remember

• I had to find some clarity about approaching life more spiritually. I think I'm kind of dense, and it makes me pull the process into mind and struggle over it in finding the path.

  

  James Redfield
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Struggle

• Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Father
  • Confidence
  • Cat

• I wanted to focus on creating a solid foundation, creating my blueprint, and understanding who I was. You can get distracted easily, and people take you off course with just a compliment. I wanted the focus to be on Karen Civil the businessperson, not what I wore, not what I looked like.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Focus
  • Understanding

• If there is a course that is quant-oriented, you need to focus on that, but if it is a course that is more general management-oriented, do you not need entrance examinations which are more all round?

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Focus
  • Management

• 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.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Focus
  • Values
  • Changes